Chunder Down Under: The Hilarious Havoc of Barry McKenzie

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Speaker 1: G'day everyone, and welcome to Dingo Ate my Movie.

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Before we jump into today's episode, I want to give you a

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quick heads up.

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Today we're discussing the adventures of Barry McKenzie and

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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own Films that are very much a

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product of their time, with humour and themes that might be

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considered offensive by today's standards.

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These movies include crude language, stereotypes and humour

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that some might find inappropriate, and then, of

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course, our discussion may reflect this content.

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So listener discretion is definitely advised, especially

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for those who might find such material upsetting.

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Now let's get cracking into the heart of Australian cinema and

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explore the legacy of Barry McKenzie.

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Hi and welcome to A Dingo Ate my Movie, a podcast that features

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classic exploitation and other weird, wonderful, overlooked and

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underappreciated Australian films from the 70s, 80s and

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Welcome to A Dingo Ate my Movie , a podcast about the weird and

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wonderful Australian films from the 70s, 80s and beyond.

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I'm your host, pete, and today Matt Fulton joins me again to

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somehow discuss the Adventures of Barry McKenzie from 1972 and

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its 1974 sequel, barry McKenzie Holds His Own G'day.

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Matt, thanks very much for joining me again.

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Speaker 3: Pete, it's an absolute pleasure that you've

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invited me back.

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You've given me.

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I thought this would be easy to do, but after watching these

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and I hadn't seen them for a long time I'm going oh, how can

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I say stuff without being taken out of context?

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Speaker 1: I've already recorded a disclaimer, don't worry.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for inviting me back on.

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Yeah, these movies hold a real nice soft spot for me.

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Oh, that's good.

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I always get you for the strange ones.

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Last time it was Alvin.

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Yeah, these movies hold a real nice soft spot for me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's good.

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I always get you for the strange ones.

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Last time it was Alvin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah which that was a mental challenge for the

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second one at least.

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Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it later, but there's a little bit

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kind of in common with these movies actually.

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Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Nice looking forward to it.

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We'll go through it later.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll see it as soon as I bring it up.

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So it's great, all right.

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So the first movie we're going to talk about today is the

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adventures of barry mckenzie and uh.

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Quick synopsis for you on the movie.

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Barry mckenzie and his aunt, edna everidge navigate the

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eccentricities of british society, experiencing a series

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of comical misadventures and cultural clashes during their

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lively journey through London.

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Cast includes Barry Crocker, barry Humphreys, dick Bentley,

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peter Cook, avis Landon Spike, milligan Dennis Price and Paul

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Bertram.

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It was directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Barry

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Humphries and Bruce Beresford.

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The thing that gets me is just like how dated it is now for one

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Speaker 3: It is yeah, and I don't know where to start with

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this.

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I know I'm the same.

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Speaker 1: How do you talk about these movies?

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I mean, these movies are very much of their time and there is

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no way you could make these movies today.

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Well, you could, but you would probably be like tarred and

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feathered, I think.

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Speaker 3: And there's no way that they would be able to be

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broadcast on, say, free-to-air or anything like that.

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Streaming, yes, because that's no holds barred, but just the

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warning note right at the beginning of Barry McKenzie.

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It just sums up.

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I'm not going to repeat it, but it sums up what you're about to

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be in for.

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But the whole thing is just complete, you know when the

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phrase well, the tongue in cheek .

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Well, that tongue has pierced that cheek and gone right out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you see the censorship, the, what is it?

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The ratings?

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the commonwealth of australia.

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Censorship.

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Classification of npa.

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Yeah, it pretty much tells you what to expect.

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You can read into npa however you like.

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If you watch the movie, you'll definitely see it and you'll

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definitely be offended by it.

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Yes, barry mckenzie is based on a fictional character created

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by barry humphries in 1964 for a comic strip in the satirical

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british magazine called private eye, and he was drawn by a new

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zealand artist, nicholas garland .

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Private eye is a british magazine that was founded in

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1961 and then purchased, uh, in 1962 by English comedian Peter

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Cook.

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So I think that's a bit of the link there between Peter Cook

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and this movie as well.

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The film was entirely funded by the Australian Film Development

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Corporation for $250 and it recouped the budget in just

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three months.

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Wow, in fact, it was actually the first Australian film to

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crack $1 million at the box office and it was also the first

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commercial R-rated Australian film.

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Interesting, it made its money back very quickly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's going by 1970s standards too

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correct, I think.

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Speaker 1: I think if you were to work it out today, I think

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you'd be looking at around around nine million dollars,

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which isn't a fortune, but you know, for a little comedy film

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it's not bad and the fact that, anything now, they need

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borderline instant returns, so you'll have to try and earn it

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back within two weeks yeah, it's like everything these days has

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to be done.

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You want the money back straight away yesterday bruce beresford

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has said both this film and barry mckenzie holds his own

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were detrimental to his career.

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He stated that it was like a massive mistake to make this

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movie because the films were so poorly received.

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Of course, bruce Berriford would go on to direct Don's

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Party in 1976 and then Break a Morant in 1980.

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He's also known for Money Movers, tender Mercy, crimes of

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the Heart and, probably most most famously, driving Miss

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Daisy.

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So it's amazing he went from Barry McKenzie to Driving Miss

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Daisy.

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He could have had like Jessica Tandy, as like Barry's mum,

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instead of Edna Everidge.

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Speaker 3: Well, there was a part.

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I don't know if you've got the Blu-ray edition, don't you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I watched it, the Blu-ray edition, don't?

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You?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I watched it on Blu-ray.

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Yeah, Did you watch it with the intro from Dame Edna?

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Speaker 1: Dame Edna, yeah, I've seen the intro.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because that's where she does highlight the

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fact that she was in Driving Miss Daisy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: But she was going to be, and then she passed it on to

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someone who was a lot younger and up-and-coming talent Jessica

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Tandy.

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Speaker 1: And we can't, speaking of Dame Edna, we can't

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really talk about this film without talking about Barry

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Humphreys and the rising star of Edna, everidge Humphreys

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actually began performing Everidge, as I read I think.

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I looked this up the other other day and it was in like the

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mid to late 50s.

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He started, uh, he kind of created that character yeah,

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auntie edna and yeah, back in.

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Speaker 3: I think it's somewhere.

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I've got it on dvd somewhere or , you know, in one of those

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archives from that channel nine released or something like that

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where Auntie Edna appeared as the suburban housewife with just

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the standard dark hair style, nothing curly or fluffy like how

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it ended up being, but it was just straightforward, brushed

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down, suburban housewife style and, yeah, just did a piece to

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the camera.

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Speaker 1: Quite amazing how it sort of all turned out.

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I'm not sure, though, whether, like was, do you think this is

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the first time she was on screen , or would she have been on

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screen sometime before this?

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Oh, before, definitely before on screen, because I know he was

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doing like shows and things On the silver screen.

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Speaker 3: No, this is probably the first time, my apologies, I

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thought you were referring to TV .

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she was probably on TV right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, especially during the Graham Kennedy era.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's right.

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Yes, exactly, exactly.

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Humphreys also played Hoot in this movie, the little hippie

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guy and the psychiatrist.

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What was he?

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Dr Lamprey, I think his name is the guy that gets vomited on in

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both movies.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so just he played many hats in the film.

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Speaker 1: He's a big loss.

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Barry Humphrey, some of his characters are just fantastic.

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I've always had a a uh, you know, a soft spot for a lot of

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the characters he does, and I'm just trying to think of my

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favorite now, I don't know.

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Edna's always really good well.

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Speaker 3: It's funny that when he started to, when he appeared

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other than the regular specials which I grew up that would be

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shown on ABC or whatever commercial network throughout

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the 80s and 90s.

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Originally I didn't like Dame Edna, but I grew up appreciating

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it a bit later on because I just didn't understand the

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humour Appealing to a newer generation would have been when

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Barry Humphries voiced Bruce the Shark in Finding Nemo.

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And so when you have your kids being fans of Bruce and then

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it's like, oh Barry Humphreys, Like when they do a deep dive, I

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guess at today's day and age, when they're now a lot older and

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they go, oh Barry Humphreys, who's he?

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And then they discover, oh my goodness, yeah, Times have

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changed.

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Speaker 1: I've always had a real soft spot for Les Patterson

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as well.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes, yeah, the head of the.

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Was it the chair on the cheese and wine board?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: There's actually a movie we could do of his as well

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Les Patterson Saves the World.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's actually a movie we could do of

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his as well.

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Liz Patterson Saves the World All right.

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Well, our bags are spot for that.

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There you go, yeah, so that'd be fun.

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Speaker 4: I've got it as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely a big loss to Australia, the other

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thing I've got about this movie .

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Just moving on to the movie itself, to me this movie is kind

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of ostensibly like a series of skits.

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I'm not saying it's a bad thing .

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I think it's probably really reminiscent of its origins in,

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you know, in a comic strip.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So we've got, you know, the way I saw it, we've

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got like leaving Australia and the trip, you know, being ripped

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off by the Poms everywhere as soon as he arrives.

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And then the bit about the cigarette ad and the, the little

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gallivanting he does with his little co-star in the ad, um,

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the gorts and the daughter, the hippies and the gig, the

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psychiatrist.

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You know, there's like all these bits that are, yes,

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they're scenes in the movie, but they're kind of almost like to

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in the movie.

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They're kind of like extended skits.

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They don't really relate much.

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It's like he goes from, you know, like the gorts bit.

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He leaves the house and gets picked up and then we're into

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the next skit, which is him with the hippies and stuff like that

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.

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Speaker 3: Well, wasn't the whole thing with Barry McKenzie?

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It created as you explained how it was all created and

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developed, but the storytelling was just in a way of Barry

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Humphreys explaining his point of view of how he sees the

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culture or the oka the Aussie oka of it all, and how he

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despises it, and then he also got everything that comes out of

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the motherland.

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So it's just his view or views of the cultures behind it and

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it's just no filter none whatsoever yeah, filter, what's

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filter?

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Speaker 1: well, I get the feeling from some of the stuff I

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watched.

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Um, I watched on with barry mckenzie holds his own.

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I had a panic last week because I thought, oh yeah, I'll be

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able to watch this on brolly or something like that.

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It's nowhere.

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It's nowhere on streaming, right yeah so right, you've got it I

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got on dvd yeah, I had to order from ebay and I was so lucky it

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came in time.

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Oh, a three pack and it had the adventures of barry mckenzie

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barry mckenzie holds his own and some dame edna thing.

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Okay, it was an umbrella release from years ago and I was

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so much panicking I was going to say I was thinking, oh shit,

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am I going to have to message Matt and say, oh, we're just

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going to have to do Barry McKenzie, I could have sent you.

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Speaker 3: You know, the funny thing is I've got the original.

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Well, I've got the DVD release when it first came out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And I still remember the day where it was being

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promoted on Rove Live and Peter Hellyer was plugging trying to

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sell this movie on Rove and he's like, oh, this is amazing,

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showing clips of it, and a lot of people would have gone

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directly over their head but I went, oh, that's interesting,

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I'll get it.

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Well, I've got that copy then, which I still have.

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So it was 2003, so I still have it.

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And then I was collecting those Oz Portation Classics bundles

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that Umbrella had released around the time of Not Quite

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Hollywood, and so there's a copy of Barry McKenzie Hold His Own

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in one of those compilations.

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So I've actually got two copies You've got it twice.

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But yeah, adventures of Barry McKenzie, because I've also got

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the original DVD and Blu-ray and also Holds His Own, so it's

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like you just call me next time.

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Speaker 1: Well, I needed it for my collection anyway.

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Speaker 3: I could have driven down the road and dropped it off

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to you.

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Speaker 1: And it had a nice extra on the DVD.

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I don't know if it's on the Blu-ray, I haven't checked it

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out.

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On the DVD of Adventures of Barry McKenzie you probably got

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it there.

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There's actually a PDF script.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I just noticed that earlier.

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I had a look at it.

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Speaker 1: I was looking at it yesterday and there's like a

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whole scene at the beginning of the movie that's not there.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Where the film opens, with Barry McKenzie having a

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surf at Bondi Beach.

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And what's his mate's name Is it Curly Curly?

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Yeah, coming down to get him from the beach because his

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father's passed away.

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And that's where the whole thing starts.

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And then they cut to the lawyer's office.

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But there's these whole scenes about them going back to the

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house and his father lying there and his father had died with

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not a beer or something, he had some alcohol in his hand or

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something like that.

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Speaker 3: Well, they might have filmed it but they probably cut

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it for time or it just didn't have a flow, because it starts

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off sombre and then it goes directly into it.

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So the fact that at that beginning of Barry McKenzie that

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everything is, you could definitely tell it was filmed in

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Sydney I'll put it that way because of the harbour backdrop

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in nearly every frame.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's very much of the times, right.

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Every time there was a movie filmed in Sydney in the 70s or

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the 80s, you always saw the harbour Bridge, the Opera House,

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like I think.

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When you listen to Brian Trenshaw Smith talking about the

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movies he made, he was always like oh well, my movies were

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almost like a promotional film for Australia.

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I always tried to make sure I had the Opera House or the

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Harbour Bridge.

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Look at the man from Hong Kong, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly when.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Wang Yu like?

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Well, probably not him, it's probably Grant Page, you know

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sort of kites through the harbour and stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just trying to sell it and I guess if

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they do that they go.

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Maybe if Tourism Australia hey, you've done some heavy lifting,

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here's some money.

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Yeah, you know, get them to piggyback off onto the

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promotions to make it a bit easier.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but going back to the movie, I think it's

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pretty obvious that Barry Humphreys wrote this as like a

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massive satire.

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Yeah, and like you were getting at, I think I read a couple of

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places where he was kind of like , yeah, this is really all about

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the overblown cliche of the aussie bloke sort of thing.

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Yeah, and it is.

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It's an overblown cliche, although there's really

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interesting one of the other I think it's the holds his own

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disc that I was looking at has like a 50-minute documentary

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that was made in like 70-something and it's all in

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black and white.

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He interviews people you know that were at the premiere and

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all this stuff.

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And he interviews this other guy and the guy is like such a

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cliche of Barry McKenzie.

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He's talking about how much he loves Barry McKenzie and he'd

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love to be Barry McKenzie.

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He's talking about how much he loves Barry McKenzie, he'd love

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to be Barry McKenzie and he's got his chick there with him and

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they zoom in on his face because he's got like he's

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dribbling a little bit and you can see the cameraman's going oh

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beauty, I'm going to zoom in on this guy dribbling while he

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goes on about everything.

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Speaker 3: Well see, I'm going to zoom in on this guy dribbling

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while he goes on about everything.

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Well see, here's the thing With the DVD releases if you can

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track them down, they're just chock full.

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If you want a good Australian film that's got a lot of extras,

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these ones are the way to go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are.

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Speaker 3: So you're getting your value for money, even

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though, whatever you feel about the film, so you're getting your

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value for money, even though, whatever you feel about the film

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, it's just bonds of features, so to speak, and yeah, it's a

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goldmine of Humphreys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's quite amazing.

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Before I watched these again for the show, I hadn't seen the

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Adventures of Barry McKenzie for God knows years.

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Right, I've had the Blu-ray, because it was the first Blu-ray

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that Umbrella released with the slip casing the Ozploitation

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Classics one.

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I think it was the first disc that they released.

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I've had it for so long I'd never watched it.

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And I pulled it out to watch it and I was like, oh wow, I

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didn't realise.

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And when I was watching some of the extras on that Blu-ray and

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there's millions of them and there's one in particular,

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there's like a documentary on that that I kept thinking, oh,

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this is going to finish soon, this is going to finish soon.

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It must have gone for nearly two hours.

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It was amazing.

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I started watching it.

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I finished watching the movie I think it was Wednesday night at

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like 9 o'clock.

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I thought, oh, I'll watch this documentary.

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It's probably only half an hour long or something.

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It's like an hour and a half or something like that and I never

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realised how deeply Barry Humphreys was ingrained.

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I never knew right, for instance, that he actually wrote

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or co-wrote the script with Bruce Beresford and how much

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input he had in this film.

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I thought he was just really there for Dame Edna and a few

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other characters, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know, is he showing away still

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from it that he had done Barry McKenzie?

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Speaker 1: Who?

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Bruce Beresford.

00:20:43
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:20:44
Speaker 1: I don't know.

00:20:45
He's still alive, right, I think so.

00:20:47
I looked him up on Wikipedia.

00:20:49
He's still alive as far as I can see, but I don't know.

00:20:53
All I can think of is he probably.

00:20:55
You know, like he said, that it kind of ruined him for a couple

00:20:59
of years.

00:21:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, but now it's a magical classic.

00:21:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you would hide that you did a

00:21:07
movie like that.

00:21:07
He might have done so, you know , in some years.

00:21:09
But I think as you get older you learn to realise that it's

00:21:12
movies like that that probably make you as a director right.

00:21:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you cut your teeth, and the fact that,

00:21:19
yeah, and he's still kicking on 83 years old at the time of this

00:21:22
recording, and I'm just amazed that you can see how low budget

00:21:30
Barry McKenzie, the first one, is, even though they did a

00:21:32
pretty good job at filming in the UK with some parts, and Hold

00:21:37
His Own is just.

00:21:38
It's backed by Reg Grundy, who is his name is slang itself or

00:21:49
the colloquialism.

00:21:51
So yeah, barry got backed by undies and you can just see how

00:21:55
much they've invested in it, but it just feels like that they

00:21:59
really stretched the idea.

00:22:00
However, it's a lot of fun.

00:22:02
Completely wrong, but a lot of fun.

00:22:04
Completely wrong, but a lot of fun.

00:22:05
Speaker 1: Like the, the ocherisms are just to the

00:22:07
extreme oh yeah, it's like I think I I actually noted down

00:22:12
some yesterday.

00:22:13
Where are they?

00:22:14
This is basically through those .

00:22:16
It was like things like you know, the usual one we're

00:22:19
talking about, the one that they always quote, about him going

00:22:23
to the bathroom, splashing the boots and pointing Percy at the

00:22:26
porcelain and calling someone a rat bag.

00:22:29
With that great song Bangs like a dunny door.

00:22:33
Fair, go blimey, don't come.

00:22:36
The raw prawn, pommy bastards, stone the crows.

00:22:39
Chinwag drongo, whoop, whoop.

00:22:41
Shoot through dry as a dead dingo's Donger, which I still

00:22:46
use today.

00:22:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear that a fair bit.

00:22:48
Yep Chunder Technicolor Yawn like a rat up a drain.

00:22:53
I love that one.

00:22:54
Speaker 1: And then the old more nookie than you've had hot

00:22:58
dinners, yeah, and the Bum's Rush.

00:23:00
I remember going back to school and I'm sure at some stage some

00:23:06
teacher we had you know you always had that like one teacher

00:23:10
that taught something like I don't know, some sort of art

00:23:15
thing or one of the more not you know mainstream subjects.

00:23:19
That was always like edgy and and was kind of like one of the

00:23:24
guys and everyone kind of liked him because he was like that.

00:23:27
I remember him at one stage I can't remember his name saying

00:23:31
something like I've had more nookie than you guys have had

00:23:33
hot dinners.

00:23:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just those little mannerisms where you go,

00:23:38
oh, and when you watch these movies you just go, oh, that's

00:23:41
where they got it from.

00:23:42
Yeah, some of them are very dated.

00:23:43
Speaker 1: I don't really watch these movies, you just go oh,

00:23:44
that's where they got it from.

00:23:44
Yeah, Some of them are very dated Inspired.

00:23:45
Yeah, I don't really hear Stone the Crows anymore.

00:23:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the only ones that the current day and

00:23:51
the most cleanest ones are, you know, referring to Al Stewart

00:23:54
Flaman, yeah, yeah, and that goes from there.

00:23:56
Speaker 1: Now this podcast is rated as explicit, so I'll have

00:24:01
this conversation and say the words I was saying to May last.

00:24:06
I was talking to her last night my wife May about the movie

00:24:12
because she hadn't had the chance to watch them with me

00:24:14
because she was working.

00:24:14
It was a weird shift this week and I said do you know what's

00:24:16
really interesting about these movies?

00:24:18
They have some of the most politically incorrect terms.

00:24:24
They have some of the worst things you've seen and you will

00:24:27
see in a movie.

00:24:28
But I don't recall ever hearing the word fuck or I don't recall

00:24:34
ever hearing the word cunt in either of these movies.

00:24:37
That's a good point.

00:24:40
There's no bad language in the movies.

00:24:43
It's bloody, but bloody is not even a rude word.

00:24:45
Speaker 3: Well, the only thing that I can think of is they get

00:24:47
as close as maybe saying shit, because it's saying shit creek.

00:24:51
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:24:51
Speaker 3: Because the amount of times that he goes you know I'm

00:24:53
up shit creek.

00:24:54
And I think it was what's the one that he's paddling out on a

00:25:01
boat and was that Holds His Own.

00:25:05
Speaker 1: I think it's Halsey Zone.

00:25:06
Speaker 3: But he's out in the Thames, I think.

00:25:10
Speaker 1: I think it's Halsey Zone, isn't it?

00:25:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he gets in the boat and then he

00:25:13
goes.

00:25:13
Oh, I'm definitely up Shit Creek without a paddle and he's

00:25:17
using his hands to get out into the water.

00:25:22
Speaker 1: So I mean that's the one when they're crossing the

00:25:24
English Channel right, is that the one?

00:25:25
I think so In Hold His Own.

00:25:27
Is that Hold His Own it?

00:25:28
Speaker 3: is.

00:25:29
This is the interesting thing.

00:25:31
Speaker 1: He's wearing blackface.

00:25:33
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the one where I just got.

00:25:36
Oh goodness gracious.

00:25:38
Speaker 1: But it's unbelievable .

00:25:41
Like the only things, there was no Americans in this movie, so

00:25:45
the only thing I didn't hear was seppos Right, but I heard all

00:25:49
the other ones.

00:25:50
You know Pommy bastard, every second word.

00:25:52
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:25:53
Speaker 1: I think if you're British, you're going to be

00:25:54
quite offended by this film.

00:25:56
Speaker 3: That's right.

00:25:57
Yeah, he does turn up in blackface.

00:25:59
This is Barry McKenzie as Abdul McKenzie.

00:26:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.

00:26:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's trying to be smuggled, because

00:26:09
Barry's been banned from returning to the UK after the

00:26:14
farce from last time, and so this is where they are trying to

00:26:19
.

00:26:19
This is where Barry McKenzie holds his own, by the way, and

00:26:24
he's going to go to France.

00:26:26
Where were they?

00:26:28
Speaker 1: heading off.

00:26:28
They were in France and they were heading back to England.

00:26:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.

00:26:31
Yeah, and he's just being smuggled out and that's where

00:26:36
okay, oh, and this is probably where you're going to have to

00:26:39
might censor it, but this is I'm only quoting the movie and this

00:26:44
is how afraid I am of it.

00:26:46
But this is I'm only quoting the movie and this is how afraid

00:26:49
I am of it.

00:26:49
But Barry escapes and then the guy goes oh, I know, basically

00:26:55
boat smugglers saying wogs are tinted people.

00:27:01
It's like layer upon layer of a fence and then they're on the

00:27:06
back of the truck or whatever with some Indian people.

00:27:12
And then the one joke which I frigging love is when the lady

00:27:18
is reading a book.

00:27:19
She's reading a book about Immanuel Kant, right so the

00:27:24
philosopher.

00:27:24
And so oh I to the accent and the delivery of it, saying

00:27:35
because Barry's like, what are you doing?

00:27:37
And she's going oh, I'm studying Kant, and he says same

00:27:41
here, but I keep failing the practical.

00:27:45
Speaker 1: It was a quick one.

00:27:46
So that's as close as they get to like a bad word right.

00:27:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly In two movies.

00:27:52
Speaker 1: Yes, not bad, yeah, but they say so many other bad

00:27:55
words that like and not considered like curse words.

00:28:00
Speaker 3: No, no, exactly.

00:28:01
And Immanuel Kant, his surname's spelled K-A-N-T.

00:28:07
So because of the English accent, it's like Kant.

00:28:12
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:28:12
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:28:13
Speaker 1: One of my favourite bits is like the section with

00:28:16
the family the Gorts.

00:28:18
Is it the Gorts?

00:28:19
The Gorts, yeah, and their daughter, and then the hippie

00:28:22
section in the middle.

00:28:23
That's quite funny, right, like the whole them thinking that

00:28:29
Edna Everidge or Barry McKenzie is rich.

00:28:32
Speaker 3: They have inheritance , yeah.

00:28:34
Speaker 1: They're rich and there's like this big

00:28:36
misunderstanding and they're trying to marry off their

00:28:39
daughter, who is kind of quite weird and not very attractive.

00:28:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, not very attractive, but she's a

00:28:51
well-known English actress.

00:28:52
Speaker 1: She was in Upstairs, downstairs or something, was she

00:28:54
, I think so yeah, I was looking .

00:28:56
Speaker 3: I can't remember her name, my apologies, but yeah,

00:29:01
well accomplished.

00:29:02
Yeah, yeah.

00:29:03
Speaker 1: It was funny because when I was watching one of the

00:29:05
documentaries, they were saying that I think it was the director

00:29:09
of photography or something was saying well, what do you say to

00:29:12
someone that's cast to be ugly right?

00:29:14
He can't say.

00:29:16
Speaker 4: He said it's very hard to say Ugly yourself up,

00:29:17
you look great.

00:29:23
Speaker 3: You look great and you're ready for your shot, yeah

00:29:24
, yeah.

00:29:24
So I just love the fact that during the adventures of Barry

00:29:27
McKenzie and they try to hook up Barry and Sarah, and they go to

00:29:31
the social and while you know Barry's being haunted by an

00:29:39
English upstart, you know, saying all the mannerisms and

00:29:43
everything and saying, oh, there's a whole bunch of

00:29:46
Australians out the back, and so when he goes out for the nice

00:29:49
frosty ales, golden ales, and then there there's his mates and

00:29:54
John Clarke as well.

00:29:55
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, john Clarke's in both these films,

00:29:57
right.

00:29:57
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:29:59
Speaker 1: Is he in both?

00:29:59
No, he's not in the second one.

00:30:00
He's not in the second one, he's not in the second one.

00:30:02
Speaker 3: The person who plays one of Barry's mates, who's in

00:30:08
the film twice, the film twice, is Clive James.

00:30:12
Speaker 1: Clive James, that's right.

00:30:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, he plays that In the first movie.

00:30:15
Speaker 1: He was basically just a man passed out at a party.

00:30:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, but in the second one he plays a bigger

00:30:19
role.

00:30:20
Out at a party yeah, but in the second one he plays a bigger

00:30:23
role.

00:30:23
It doesn't speak much, but every time you see a frosty,

00:30:24
golden nail froth up in the screen or can opening, it's him.

00:30:29
Yeah, yeah.

00:30:31
Speaker 1: Apparently he said about the first film that he was

00:30:33
basically just there to lie down and be passed out and for

00:30:37
some reason it made him classified as like a stunt

00:30:40
person and he got paid more the fact is.

00:30:46
Speaker 3: I wasn't aware that Clive James was part of these

00:30:48
movies and I grew up watching his satirical talk show.

00:30:57
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:30:59
Speaker 3: Just late on in the early 90s on the ABC.

00:31:04
So just his dry humour when he's doing those chat shows, and

00:31:10
so to see him doing this, being very active, and I'm going,

00:31:14
whoa, I did not expect that.

00:31:16
So yeah, and I've seen these movies before, but I saw them at

00:31:20
such a young age.

00:31:22
Speaker 1: You don't realise or they don't have the impact that

00:31:25
they have now.

00:31:26
Speaker 3: yeah, no, exactly and just that extra layer of

00:31:29
appearances by certain people and going oh, okay they're in it

00:31:32
.

00:31:34
Speaker 1: The actress that played Sarah is Jenny Thomason.

00:31:38
Speaker 3: That's it yes, yeah.

00:31:39
Yeah, fantastic actress too.

00:31:42
Speaker 1: She was really good.

00:31:43
I think she was really good.

00:31:44
I don't think she was particularly ugly.

00:31:47
Obviously they made her up to be that way.

00:31:48
They put terrible clothes on her.

00:31:50
Speaker 3: I think it was, yeah, the character just trying to

00:31:53
downplay.

00:31:54
Speaker 1: But Barry still had a go.

00:31:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, tried to he tries to.

00:31:59
Yeah, and that's when Mrs Gort was trying to marry them off.

00:32:04
Yeah, but Mr Gort with his fetish, dennis Price right.

00:32:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently this was like one of Dennis Price's

00:32:14
last movies and at this time he was deeply alcoholic,

00:32:17
effectively Wow.

00:32:17
Deep into like he was deeply alcoholic, effectively Wow.

00:32:21
And the scene where he falls asleep next to his wife Was

00:32:27
legit.

00:32:27
Wasn't scripted for him to fall asleep?

00:32:30
Speaker 3: Oh, because when Mrs Gort is rambling on and then he

00:32:33
falls asleep, that actually suits it.

00:32:35
Speaker 1: It did, but it wasn't scripted to do that.

00:32:37
Apparently he just did that, wow, so yeah, so I think he died

00:32:42
not long after this movie, but his character like even this

00:32:46
character is kind of offensive.

00:32:47
He's almost like he's one of those, I guess once again it's

00:32:53
kind of like a satire on the closeted British kind of

00:33:00
bisexual or suppressed sexuality sort of thing where he puts on

00:33:08
a school uniform.

00:33:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, wants to be punished.

00:33:11
Speaker 1: Wants to be punished by Barry, who thinks it's really

00:33:13
strange and anyone would.

00:33:17
Speaker 3: And Mrs Gort's just like, oh jeez, Like she's grown

00:33:21
up to live with it.

00:33:22
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:33:24
Speaker 3: But that's when he escapes.

00:33:26
Oh, I've got to mention, though , too beforehand, right at the

00:33:29
very beginning, or near the very beginning, where Barry does

00:33:33
arrive in the UK and stays in the hotel, that it's the hotel

00:33:39
or the hostel, or whatever you want to call it.

00:33:41
Run by Spike.

00:33:44
Speaker 1: Milligan, spike Milligan.

00:33:45
Yeah, he's really good as well.

00:33:48
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:33:49
Speaker 1: I learned lots of things about him because I used

00:33:50
to listen like I had friends when I was going to school.

00:33:53
He used to listen to the Goon Show and all that sort of stuff

00:33:56
and I used to listen to him a lot.

00:33:58
Then it was interesting to hear in some of the stuff I watched

00:34:02
on the disc about him being kind of very insecure about his

00:34:09
performances and things like that.

00:34:10
But he was really funny Like the whole thing with him pulling

00:34:14
his sleeve down.

00:34:15
So when Barry shook his hand he's pulling his sleeve back.

00:34:20
That was all kind of just ad lib by him sort of thing.

00:34:23
All the subtleties, funny guy.

00:34:26
That's a great scene too, especially when the lights go

00:34:31
out and he shows him the box to put money in.

00:34:34
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:34:34
Speaker 1: Just do that every 20 minutes Exactly yeah, I don't

00:34:38
know if that sort of thing ever really existed.

00:34:40
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know, I sort of thing ever

00:34:41
really existed.

00:34:42
Speaker 1: I don't know I don't know.

00:34:43
Speaker 3: I've seen something like that happen in movies a

00:34:45
fair bit, but I don't know if that's an actual thing.

00:34:48
Speaker 1: Well, you know it's yeah, could have happened.

00:34:51
Speaker 3: But the fact that Barry Crocker playing our mate

00:34:54
Barry McKenzie again it's known him as a fantastic performer,

00:35:02
singer and everything else like that, and when you get him to do

00:35:06
this, he's just the complete opposite.

00:35:09
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:35:09
Speaker 3: But just shows that he's got a sense of humour.

00:35:11
His character, his performance as his character, is just so

00:35:15
goddamn perfect.

00:35:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, he does a great job and it's so against cast

00:35:20
right.

00:35:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:35:21
Speaker 4: For him.

00:35:22
Speaker 3: Oh, exactly.

00:35:24
Speaker 1: He's totally one of those really nice guys.

00:35:27
He's a bit of a smooth singer and I think he was, like you

00:35:30
know, someone that really appealed to the housewives and

00:35:34
all this sort of stuff.

00:35:35
Speaker 3: You know, with his records and things like that,

00:35:38
yeah, it's the audience of, say, IMT slash, Burt Newton and then

00:35:42
Don Lane Show just that calm, wonderful performer and knows

00:35:49
how to hold a note.

00:35:49
And then suddenly he's like you know, oh, I'm dry as a dead

00:35:53
dingo's donger.

00:35:56
Speaker 1: I don't know that he did anything else Like he did

00:35:58
these two movies.

00:35:59
Did he do any other?

00:36:00
I don't think he did right.

00:36:03
I think he was mostly.

00:36:04
Obviously he's a singer.

00:36:05
I'm just having a quick look while we talk about it here we

00:36:10
go.

00:36:10
Speaker 3: No, he did nothing after Barry McKenzie until 93.

00:36:13
Yeah, that's it, Shotgun wedding.

00:36:15
But there was a voice.

00:36:17
But he made an appearance as himself in Muriel's wedding in

00:36:20
1994.

00:36:22
Speaker 1: And, of course, between 85 and 92 he was the

00:36:26
voice singing the theme song to Neighbours.

00:36:28
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly the first time around, the first

00:36:31
ever audition.

00:36:32
Speaker 1: He was host of a TV series, I think right, or a

00:36:36
leading performer on the Sound of Music, or something like that

00:36:38
.

00:36:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's popped up in various places as an

00:36:42
entertainer of sorts MC and everything, but he's very good

00:36:45
in this film, in this film.

00:36:48
Yeah, in this film, yeah, the one part which I did get a good

00:36:52
giggle out of was when, jumping back to when they were at the

00:36:56
Gortz and just out of nowhere, aunty Edna had the clippers and

00:37:01
it's like I hope you don't mind if I could take a little

00:37:05
clipping.

00:37:05
And then the next scene she comes back to the window and

00:37:12
it's like this full-on amount.

00:37:12
It's like, yeah, interesting, that's a good visual joke, yeah.

00:37:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, and your first thoughts are like, how's she

00:37:19
going to get these home?

00:37:20
And it's so typical of like a house.

00:37:23
Once again it's the old, the satire right on people that

00:37:28
would come to your house.

00:37:29
And I've seen my mother do it, and they would see people come

00:37:32
to our house.

00:37:32
They'd be like, oh, do you mind this is beautiful?

00:37:34
Do you mind if I have a small cutting of this to take?

00:37:37
Speaker 3: yeah well, I remember watching, uh, being at my

00:37:40
grandparents' place growing up, and then you would have the

00:37:44
neighbour or an aunt or whatever .

00:37:46
They'll be coming over.

00:37:47
It's like, oh, they'll take a little sample or a seedling, or

00:37:52
a clipping yeah.

00:37:53
Speaker 1: The other thing I'll talk about.

00:37:54
We can talk about it with both films, but I think what I really

00:37:59
like about this movie is I love the scenes with the hippies.

00:38:03
Yes, with the musical performances, with the musical

00:38:07
performances and you know, like Julie Covington is in this, she

00:38:13
plays Blanche, which is a weird name for a hippie.

00:38:17
It's really strange.

00:38:20
And their bus isn't the bus called or the band name called

00:38:25
the Judas Iscariot Chariot or something like that.

00:38:27
Speaker 3: Something like that.

00:38:28
Yeah, but they're all heading out to perform at the leprosy

00:38:32
benefit.

00:38:34
Speaker 1: Well, there's this theme of leprosy running right

00:38:36
through the movie.

00:38:37
Did you notice that?

00:38:38
No Like later on there's a scene where someone's reading a

00:38:41
newspaper and it's got like an update on the leprosy epidemic

00:38:46
oh goodness gracious, see subtlety.

00:38:48
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to re-watch it again.

00:38:49
Speaker 1: It's amazing you see so many easter eggs yeah there

00:38:52
is, but those scenes are great like it looks like the cavern

00:38:56
club.

00:38:56
I don't think it is amazing.

00:38:57
Speaker 3: No, I was going to point that out.

00:38:59
It looked like, uh, the like the old Beatles or where they

00:39:03
had their first performance, but it looks familiar.

00:39:07
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it is, but it does look like it.

00:39:10
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:39:12
Speaker 1: And it's got these two great songs in these scenes,

00:39:15
like the One-Eyed Trouser Snake song.

00:39:18
Speaker 3: Yep.

00:39:19
Speaker 1: Which is fantastic that I'll probably play right

00:39:21
now.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: Because that was bloody delightful man.

00:39:26
We've got some pretty grouse songs back in Australia too.

00:39:29
You know, you mean friend, you could sing us some authentic,

00:39:32
viable Aboriginal protest song.

00:39:34
Oh, come off it sport.

00:39:35
No, I mean some of those ditties me and me mates used to

00:39:37
sing down at Bondi Beach.

00:39:38
Well, give us a guitar.

00:39:39
Here's one.

00:39:46
We made curly rope.

00:39:48
Oh, I've got a little creature.

00:39:50
I suppose you'd call him a pet, and if there's something wrong

00:39:55
with him I don't have to call the vet.

00:39:57
He goes everywhere that I go, Whether sleeping or awake.

00:40:01
God help me if I ever lose my little one-night-trouser snake.

00:40:04
Oh, the one-night-trouser snake , oh me one-night-trouser snake.

00:40:08
God help me if I ever lose me one-night-trouser snake.

00:40:11
One day I got to reading in an old Sky Pilots book About two

00:40:17
stark as bastards who made the Lord go cruel.

00:40:19
They reckoned it was a serpent that made Eve the apple take

00:40:24
Tribes.

00:40:24
That was no flaming serpent.

00:40:26
Speaker 1: It was Adam's one-eyed trouser steak.

00:40:28
Speaker 2: Oh me one-eyed trouser steak.

00:40:29
Oh me one-eyed trouser steak.

00:40:31
God help me if I ever lose me one-eyed trouser steak.

00:40:35
I met this arty Sheila who I'd never met before and something

00:40:45
kind of told me she banged like a Donny Dog.

00:40:46
I said come up and see me etching.

00:40:46
She said I hope it's not a fake .

00:40:48
I said the only thing that sets you at ease Me one-eyed trouser

00:40:52
snake.

00:40:53
Speaker 4: Oh me one-eyed trouser snake.

00:40:54
Oh me one-eyed trouser snake.

00:40:56
Gotta be if I ever lose me one-eyed trouser snake.

00:41:00
Speaker 2: Come all you little sheilas and listen to me song

00:41:04
the moral of the trouser snake is short as it is long.

00:41:08
Beware of imitations.

00:41:11
Don't lock your bedroom door.

00:41:13
When me pyjama python bites you , you'll be screaming out for

00:41:16
more.

00:41:17
Speaker 4: Oh, my one-eyed trouser snake.

00:41:19
My one-eyed trouser snake Grunt up me in fire.

00:41:21
The loo's.

00:41:21
My one-eyed trouser snake.

00:41:22
Oh, the one I chose is fake.

00:41:22
Oh, the one I chose is fake.

00:41:22
Got to be a fire in the room.

00:41:22
My one I chose is fake, oh the one.

00:41:24
Speaker 1: I chose is fake, oh the one.

00:41:26
Speaker 4: I chose is fake.

00:41:27
Got to be a fire in the room.

00:41:29
My one I chose is fake.

00:41:31
Fantastic, barry, wasn't that fantastic.

00:41:37
Speaker 2: Listen here, man, we're doing a little gig tonight

00:41:41
at the Freedom Arch Factory.

00:41:42
Speaker 1: It's a very heavy little place and this other song

00:41:46
called the Old Pacific Sea, which is basically about

00:41:49
throwing up from the side of a boat.

00:41:51
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because it was all about how the word

00:41:53
chunder came about.

00:41:54
Yeah, Watch under.

00:41:57
Speaker 1: That's right.

00:41:58
Watch out under Watch out under or watch under.

00:42:02
So that's where chanda came all .

00:42:03
So they wrote into this script anyway and then shortened down

00:42:07
to just chanda chanda so aussie, so aussie, yeah, yeah the songs

00:42:13
are great.

00:42:14
The the scenes in the like in the club whether it's a club or

00:42:17
not, I don't know they're quite funny and Drink it up.

00:42:21
Yeah, it's such a great song, I'll play it.

00:42:24
It'll be on here somewhere.

00:42:25
I think I'm going to discuss some people and put these songs

00:42:30
in, because they're just great ditties May thought when I

00:42:34
played one of them to her, she said and somebody else said it

00:42:38
on Twitter I was talking to was like was it you?

00:42:41
It was like, or was it you, it was you, I think.

00:42:43
Like they remind me of Kevin Bloody Wilson.

00:42:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was me, it was you.

00:42:47
Yeah, it was me?

00:42:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's very true.

00:42:50
Right, you could imagine Kevin Bloody Wilson singing these

00:42:53
songs.

00:42:54
Speaker 3: Oh, 100%.

00:42:55
I won't even quote the ones that I can think of that would

00:42:59
be suited for the movie.

00:43:01
But yeah, they're just not right to say out of context.

00:43:06
But I was going to say that when they were doing the live

00:43:11
performance at the leprosy benefit that the record exec the

00:43:18
character's name, maury Miller, who wants to sign up Barry.

00:43:22
Now, when you think about it, I haven't listened to any of the

00:43:26
commentary on the movies or anything like that.

00:43:28
But one thing that I did know was I feel like I worked out was

00:43:32
Maury Miller looked very like a certain promoter, which was

00:43:40
Harry M Miller promoter, which was Harry M Miller, and Harry M

00:43:45
Miller the M in Harry's name stands for Morris.

00:43:48
So I'd say that there would be Murray Miller would be a homage

00:43:52
because he just looked like Harry.

00:43:53
Yeah, yeah, interesting.

00:43:56
So I thought that's a nice little homage to him.

00:43:59
Speaker 1: And once again that whole storyline in the middle

00:44:01
goes nowhere.

00:44:02
It's just a bridge to the next sketch.

00:44:05
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, especially the dream sequence when he

00:44:09
passes out.

00:44:09
Yeah.

00:44:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is really strange.

00:44:12
It's almost like the dream sequence in Razorback.

00:44:14
Yeah.

00:44:17
Speaker 3: Oh, there's a movie, yeah, it's almost the same.

00:44:20
Speaker 1: And once again it's got these Aboriginal people sort

00:44:24
of chasing him.

00:44:27
Speaker 3: And he's a convict.

00:44:28
Speaker 1: And he's a convict and it's kind of like, where did

00:44:31
this come from?

00:44:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, I swear, I don't remember that scene

00:44:35
anywhere.

00:44:35
Yeah, I don't remember it either I don't know if it's been

00:44:38
inserted into the because I watched it on Blu-ray.

00:44:40
I really should watch the DVD version of it to see if it's in

00:44:43
there.

00:44:44
Speaker 1: If it's in, but I just don't remember that scene.

00:44:46
No, I don't either.

00:44:47
Unless it's one of those ones that's just easily forgettable.

00:44:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, forgettable, regrettable, it's a bit of a

00:44:53
strange one.

00:45:03
Speaker 1: Well, you know, like, yeah, I was trying to work out

00:45:04
why it was in there.

00:45:05
Whether it's in there because he's always saying things that

00:45:06
are quite derogatory of Aboriginal people or that sort

00:45:07
of thing, I don't know he was coming back to haunt him.

00:45:09
Maybe I don't know.

00:45:10
Yeah, it's quite weird.

00:45:12
Speaker 3: But then after when he's trying to, basically when

00:45:16
he's invited to go on TV as well and what is it when?

00:45:23
he ends up meeting Leslie.

00:45:25
Then he gets in Leslie's ex years, a TV producer, which is

00:45:30
played by Peter Cook.

00:45:31
So there's your connection with Peter Cook and Barry McKenzie

00:45:36
when they go on to the talk show and when they go live on air

00:45:43
and Barry ends up dropping his dacks in front of everyone

00:45:46
because, I'm sorry, the TV show Midnight Oil, that's what it was

00:45:51
called and, yeah, he drops his dacks to prove a point or make

00:45:57
his point, Taking it out of a misunderstanding, so to speak.

00:46:04
Speaker 1: It's quite funny that whole scene and it's really

00:46:06
ludicrous at the end how there's a fire.

00:46:08
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:46:09
Speaker 1: And they're putting it out.

00:46:10
They've got like this chain of people bringing fosters along

00:46:14
the chain to the guys standing at the top pissing on the fire.

00:46:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, the fact that they did that and you go.

00:46:19
Well, how about you pour it out with a beer?

00:46:21
It's like no beer's alcoholic, so therefore it'll ignite it

00:46:26
even further, so you've got to water it down.

00:46:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's another one of these movies that kind of

00:46:31
gives foreign people the wrong impression of Australia because

00:46:35
Foster's is in the movie and, as you and I both know, nobody

00:46:39
drinks Foster's in Australia.

00:46:41
Speaker 3: There's a reason why we export it.

00:46:43
Speaker 1: It's exactly right because we don't like it.

00:46:46
So I'm not sure why it's in this movie.

00:46:49
The other interesting thing about this film is that the

00:46:52
Qantas figure quite a lot in this movie.

00:46:59
You know, the flight going out, the flight going out and those

00:47:02
Qantas bags.

00:47:03
Speaker 3: Oh, we've got to track down one of those.

00:47:05
I do remember my nana having a bag like that.

00:47:09
Yeah yeah, those were all the rage.

00:47:13
Speaker 1: And they've got them on them all the time.

00:47:15
They've always got them on their shoulder.

00:47:17
Speaker 3: Oh, it's fantastic.

00:47:19
Speaker 1: It is, Bring them back.

00:47:20
That was in the old days and I was looking at it and I'm like,

00:47:23
look at the size of those seats and they're probably flying

00:47:26
economy.

00:47:26
I'm like the seats are massive.

00:47:29
There's so much leg room and pitch between the seats.

00:47:34
Speaker 3: It's amazing.

00:47:34
Yeah, and they were smoking on the flight too.

00:47:36
They were smoking on the flight .

00:47:37
I don't condone.

00:47:38
Sorry, I don't support smoking, but you can tell the era as

00:47:44
soon as you see smoking on a flight, you go yep, that was

00:47:47
definitely.

00:47:47
It was the 70s, yeah.

00:47:49
Speaker 1: Well, as soon as you see smoking anywhere indoors,

00:47:52
you know it's the 70s.

00:47:53
Oh, yeah, yeah, I used to.

00:47:54
Well, even the 80s, right, because I don't think smoking

00:48:04
was outlawed in pubs for a long time, and and I used to play

00:48:05
pubs all the time with bands in the 80s, and when I would get

00:48:07
home from gigs uh, even in the 90s, I think I would basically

00:48:13
go from my car to the laundry, take off all my clothes that I

00:48:18
was wearing at the gig, put them in the washing machine and

00:48:20
start the washing machine before I even thought of coming to bed

00:48:23
, and then I was in the shower because I just smelt like

00:48:26
cigarettes.

00:48:27
Speaker 3: Oh, yuck it was terrible.

00:48:28
Speaker 1: And then I would get to rehearsal during the week and

00:48:32
I would open my drum cases and all you could smell was like

00:48:36
stale cigarette.

00:48:37
Oh, good and the cymbals and the drums.

00:48:40
I was always cleaning because there was always like a film on

00:48:44
them.

00:48:44
Speaker 3: It was just terrible.

00:48:46
I will say, though, that I still remember working.

00:48:51
You remember when Chili's existed?

00:48:54
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:48:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was a busboy at the time, so first job ever

00:48:58
14 to nine months.

00:48:59
And I still remember the Chili's restaurant being halved

00:49:04
down the middle when you walk in .

00:49:06
On the right would be non-smoking, on the left would

00:49:10
be smoking and the smoking side would be a bit more smaller.

00:49:12
And I just remember, just as you're talking about that, just

00:49:16
going home and I remember my shirt.

00:49:19
Speaker 1: I just remember smelling of stale cigarette

00:49:22
smoke, yeah, yeah, it's the most terrible smell and it like

00:49:26
sticks to everything, so it was awful.

00:49:29
Before we stop talking about this movie, I want.

00:49:33
The guy who I think is great in this movie and really

00:49:36
underrated is Paul Bertram, who plays Curly.

00:49:40
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:49:41
Speaker 1: I think he's like Baz's best mate, and the

00:49:45
relationship they have together seems really actually quite real

00:49:50
.

00:49:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is a great chemistry.

00:49:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, really good chemistry, and John Clark's in

00:49:57
this as well.

00:49:57
Yeah, has a really small part.

00:50:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, he delivers it well, drops his New Zealand

00:50:03
accent.

00:50:06
Speaker 1: It's like they pulled everyone out.

00:50:07
It's one of these movies that you get rewarded by seeing these

00:50:11
different people that you're like oh it's him, oh it's him,

00:50:15
you know.

00:50:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a loose Fred Dagg performance A

00:50:19
little bit a little bit.

00:50:21
Speaker 1: But yeah, curly's a good character.

00:50:23
I like the relationship they have.

00:50:25
I actually like right at the end of the film, when bazaar's

00:50:30
going off with edna and in the studio and he's leaving him

00:50:34
behind, the kind of the look on his face.

00:50:37
He has this really great look and it's like, oh, my mate's

00:50:39
going, sort, going, sort of thing and it's kind of, yeah,

00:50:41
it's really really good.

00:50:42
I really like it.

00:50:43
One of the things I noticed there's a scene early where

00:50:46
they're sitting in the pub and I think it's when Baza is being

00:50:50
talked to by the executive, the advertising guy.

00:50:53
Speaker 3: Yes.

00:50:53
Speaker 1: And there's four pictures on the wall behind them

00:50:55
.

00:50:55
I don't know if you noticed them.

00:50:57
I did I them, I did I.

00:51:04
I've actually got that in my notes, rolf harris, I think,

00:51:05
robert menzies is the prime minister.

00:51:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, errol flynn, I think yeah, errol flynn, I knew

00:51:08
it had to do something yeah, like he looked familiar yeah,

00:51:11
yeah, and barry humphries yes, yeah, that's it.

00:51:15
But yeah, barry humphries played four characters, he

00:51:18
played lots, he played himself and three others.

00:51:20
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and also I didn't notice until this

00:51:25
viewing once again because I haven't watched it for a long

00:51:27
time that, um, I did not know.

00:51:31
Until right near the end I was like, hang on, claude's, not a

00:51:36
guy that.

00:51:38
Speaker 3: That's the joke behind it all.

00:51:40
Speaker 1: Yeah I know right well accomplished actress as

00:51:42
well as well I'm right, oh okay, because at first you're like,

00:51:47
oh, this is, he looks very british or she looks very

00:51:49
british, and I'm like, oh okay, something interesting there.

00:51:53
And then later on I'm like, hang on, that's not a good one.

00:51:59
So, yeah, it's pretty good, I think with these movies in

00:52:05
general, but this one especially , I think I just get the feeling

00:52:08
with Barry Humphreys that he just likes outraging people.

00:52:13
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:52:14
Speaker 1: And I think that's why this movie goes and the next

00:52:16
one go as hard as they do, because I think he just likes

00:52:20
watching people's reactions to things like this.

00:52:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's trying to be controversial, like it's

00:52:29
their front and centre.

00:52:30
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:52:30
Speaker 3: And then when someone watches it and then they get

00:52:34
upset about it.

00:52:35
Speaker 4: It's like well, it was right there, I don't get why

00:52:38
you still watched it.

00:52:39
Speaker 3: I don't get why you still watched it when yeah,

00:52:41
again, it's his vision or his way of his thoughts and feelings

00:52:48
on the culture.

00:52:49
Yeah absolutely how much he disdains or does not like I

00:53:00
guess the ochre and bogan Very much.

00:53:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he says himself in one of the

00:53:03
interviews that he is effectively a bit of a snob.

00:53:07
Yeah, so he sort of.

00:53:09
You can see it when you watch his movies.

00:53:12
Speaker 3: He's aware of it and it's like yep.

00:53:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm going to have him dig at these people

00:53:16
.

00:53:16
Speaker 3: Exactly, yeah, just an easy target.

00:53:18
Speaker 1: Absolutely All right.

00:53:20
So let's have a quick look at.

00:53:23
Barry mckenzie holds his own and in this movie, I guess this

00:53:29
synopsis is when barry's beloved aunt, edna is mistakenly

00:53:33
kidnapped by a group of vampires who believe she's the queen.

00:53:37
Barry must navigate the peculiarities of european

00:53:41
culture and rally his mates to rescue her, just that mistakenly

00:53:46
kidnapped by a group of vampires who believe she's the

00:53:48
queen.

00:53:49
Speaker 3: Coo-wee.

00:53:51
Speaker 1: It tells you everything.

00:53:52
This movie is batshit crazy, but I think it's actually better

00:53:58
than the first one.

00:53:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's got a bigger budget.

00:54:00
I believe it's got a bigger budget I think it's like the

00:54:01
than the first one.

00:54:01
Speaker 1: Yeah because it's got a bigger budget.

00:54:02
I believe it's got a bigger budget.

00:54:02
I think it's like the budget was $450, so it wasn't a

00:54:05
great deal more, but it was a bit more.

00:54:08
And it stars Barry Crocker, barry Humphreys, donald

00:54:12
Pleasance, dick Bentley, ed Devereaux, desmond Tester,

00:54:19
chantelle Contori, clive James and a great cameo by Gough

00:54:24
Whitlam.

00:54:25
Speaker 3: Yes, also, don't forget Roy Kinnear as well.

00:54:28
Speaker 1: Oh okay, who plays?

00:54:30
Speaker 3: you know, aka Veruca Salt's, dad from Willy Wonka and

00:54:35
the Chocolate Factory.

00:54:35
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, correct.

00:54:36
Speaker 3: Because he plays, I think, the bishop or Is he the

00:54:40
bishop?

00:54:40
Speaker 1: The bishop's pretty funny in this.

00:54:43
Speaker 3: Or he's in the church with Barrington's twin brother,

00:54:49
as we discover.

00:54:50
Speaker 1: So this is where, as I was saying to you earlier,

00:54:53
these two movies have a lot in common with Alvin Purple and

00:54:57
Alvin Rhodes.

00:54:57
Again, the second one is better than the first.

00:55:00
The second one has the main character or the actor playing

00:55:06
two different parts.

00:55:07
There's more of a story, it's a little bit crazier, but this

00:55:11
story is nuts Like I was just thinking, like Donald Pleasance,

00:55:20
right, this is three years after Wake in Fright and four

00:55:24
years before Halloween that he was in this movie and I don't

00:55:29
know whether the movies he was doing in this period.

00:55:32
I know he did the race for the Yankee Zephyr, but I don't think

00:55:36
that was till after Halloween.

00:55:37
That was an 80s movie, I think, or was it around this time?

00:55:42
Speaker 3: I'm not 100% sure.

00:55:43
Speaker 1: But, anyway, how he goes from the performance in

00:55:48
Wake and Fright to play Count Plasma in this movie is nuts and

00:56:01
I've got to say he pretty good like for this movie.

00:56:05
He's pretty funny, like the part he plays.

00:56:08
Speaker 3: Yes, like he does it well.

00:56:10
And do you think, though, like the movie's introduced by the

00:56:14
Minister for Culture, which is Humphreys, and then, you know, a

00:56:20
big slap with Reg Grundy presents?

00:56:22
So I feel like that Reg Grundy enjoyed the Adventures of Barry

00:56:28
McKenzie and was like, hey, make another one, and then just

00:56:32
throwing this movie together and just make it more crazy Because

00:56:37
they're on the plane at the beginning.

00:56:39
I'm not sure, but does that mean that they've picked up

00:56:45
directly from the first one, the previous film?

00:56:49
I don't know.

00:56:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, In the first film I thought they were flying

00:56:54
home to Sydney.

00:56:55
Speaker 3: Well, that's what I thought too, but there was just

00:56:58
a couple of things in this one where it just seems like they

00:57:03
mentioned that, but I don't know if it was another trip.

00:57:09
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:57:09
Speaker 3: But yeah, I just couldn't quite work it out.

00:57:12
Speaker 1: And this one.

00:57:13
You know, the French are front and centre for lampooning.

00:57:17
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the frog air .

00:57:19
Speaker 1: Frog air.

00:57:19
Yeah, and it was interesting.

00:57:21
Apparently, after the first movie I was reading or watched,

00:57:28
qantas did not want to borrow this movie.

00:57:30
Speaker 3: Ah, okay, that's why there's no Qantas involved with

00:57:33
this movie?

00:57:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't want anything to do with it,

00:57:36
which is a bit of a bummer, but you know.

00:57:38
So that's how we ended up with Frog Air.

00:57:41
Speaker 3: Yeah is a bit of a bummer, but you know.

00:57:41
Speaker 1: So that's how we ended up with frog air, yeah, um

00:57:42
, and we get the, the, you know all the usual stuff, with the

00:57:47
stewardess in the cockpit, with the, with the pilot having a bit

00:57:52
of a tryst, and yeah, the drunken pilot the drunken and,

00:57:57
uh, the you know that he runs into barry, runs into the

00:58:01
psychiatrist again on the flight .

00:58:04
So it's really weird they're all on the same flight again and

00:58:07
Barry's mates are sitting down the back.

00:58:10
Speaker 3: Well, that's what reminded me, or made me think,

00:58:12
that it was a direct continuation from the first one

00:58:15
because the doctor has decided to catch the same flight.

00:58:19
That's what gave me the impression.

00:58:23
Speaker 1: I think it all starts .

00:58:24
I think the whole storyline starts off because Edna Everidge

00:58:27
puts on like a tiara which God knows where she got it.

00:58:32
And then these two lackeys of Count Plasma that are on the

00:58:37
plane.

00:58:37
They're on the plane, right.

00:58:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're on the plane and they think, oh, that

00:58:41
shit looks like it's the plane.

00:58:42
Speaker 1: They're on the plane, right yeah?

00:58:42
They're on the plane and they think, oh, that shit looks like

00:58:44
it's the queen, yeah, and they decide they're going to kidnap

00:58:47
her.

00:58:48
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:58:48
Speaker 1: It's so funny.

00:58:49
Count Plasma wants to kidnap her for her blood because of the

00:58:54
.

00:58:54
You know, he's kind of got like this lair where he has all

00:58:58
different types of blood in bottles, almost like wine that

00:59:00
and also to help with the tourism of Transylvania.

00:59:02
Oh, that's right, tourism yeah.

00:59:04
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, if we've got the Queen here, I can,

00:59:06
yeah, tourism.

00:59:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, but apparently the rescue could only be done on

00:59:11
Sundays because it's the only day they have tourists in there.

00:59:14
Yeah, that's right, and I love seeing Ed Devereaux in these

00:59:21
movies.

00:59:22
It's so good.

00:59:23
I mean it must just take me back to probably watching Skippy

00:59:26
as a kid.

00:59:27
But have you seen him in Money Movers?

00:59:30
Speaker 3: No, but I've got Completely opposite.

00:59:32
I'm like you with the Blu-rays from Umbrella, where I've bought

00:59:37
it, and it's just sitting there on the shelf.

00:59:38
I'll get around to watching it.

00:59:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've probably watched lucky if I watched half

00:59:42
of the ones I've got.

00:59:43
He's excellent in money movers.

00:59:45
Ed devro he's really good.

00:59:46
This one as well has some really cool songs as well yeah

00:59:53
it has uh the uh the song about uh the rat bag song, which I

00:59:58
think is quite funny.

00:59:59
Funny when he's explaining what a ratbag is to everybody in the

01:00:04
church, when he's swapped with his brother.

01:00:08
Speaker 3: It gets temporarily kidnapped yeah.

01:00:13
Speaker 1: So it's quite weird, like he's got this whole scene

01:00:16
or this whole thing where he's got a brother.

01:00:19
I can't remember his brother's name.

01:00:20
Is it in the?

01:00:21
Is it?

01:00:23
Yeah, it's Kev.

01:00:23
Yeah, yeah, kev McKenzie.

01:00:26
Speaker 3: And the only difference is the hat is a

01:00:29
different colour.

01:00:29
It's like a grey-esque type, like the suit, and everything's

01:00:35
just a pale lighter.

01:00:37
Yeah, grey-ish.

01:00:40
Speaker 1: So yeah, so we have Kev McKenzie and he gets taken

01:00:43
out because the bad guys think that that's Barry McKenzie or

01:00:46
something like that.

01:00:47
Yeah, he ends up putting on the thing?

01:00:50
And what's the name of the?

01:00:52
The?

01:00:55
Speaker 3: exhibition.

01:00:56
Speaker 1: The exhibition.

01:00:56
Is it something about?

01:00:57
Speaker 3: Christ and the Orgasm .

01:01:02
Speaker 1: Just to be a bit more outrageous and piss people off,

01:01:05
I guess.

01:01:06
Speaker 3: Because after they touch down in France and then

01:01:09
they go through to security and Barry has got Foster strapped to

01:01:15
him and he gets all shot up by it.

01:01:18
Speaker 1: Totally forgot about that bit.

01:01:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, strapped to his torso and yeah, but they also

01:01:24
try to poison Barry as well and that's where he ends up feeling

01:01:29
a bit sick.

01:01:30
This is the goons.

01:01:30
Yeah, they try to poison him and then when they go up to the

01:01:36
Eiffel Tower for a tourism part and then he's going, oh, I've

01:01:40
got a bit of a feeling in me, ned Kelly, I'm going to cry,

01:01:42
ruth.

01:01:43
It's like, well, do it Cry, ruth, over the side, Ruth.

01:01:47
And the fact that when they go down, they beat the vomit

01:01:54
falling.

01:01:57
Speaker 1: That's hilarious.

01:01:57
There's something about vomiting Apparently.

01:02:00
Barry Humphreys mixed all the vomit for both the films.

01:02:03
He has this thing.

01:02:05
Speaker 3: Pea soup and he gave a list of ingredients of what he

01:02:09
did with it and all gone.

01:02:10
That's really, really cool.

01:02:11
That sounds quite appetising.

01:02:15
Speaker 1: He used to mix it up in bags or something.

01:02:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of gross really.

01:02:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, he seems to like a lot of things like that.

01:02:23
Yeah, it's an interesting movie .

01:02:27
The songs are great.

01:02:28
This one's more to me, much more of a complete movie, where

01:02:33
it actually has a beginning, a middle and an end.

01:02:36
It has like three acts, yeah, but it still has that little bit

01:02:42
of you know, kind of like here's this bit, here's this bit

01:02:50
, and they're very much just getting from one to another, and

01:02:53
I know that's normally how all movies are made but, I, think

01:02:56
with the first movie it's just very obvious that it's kind of

01:02:59
like they wrote skits and just linked them all together well,

01:03:02
what are the most iconic lines that has?

01:03:05
Speaker 3: that's been mentioned in the movie and you see that a

01:03:08
lot in the promotions for anything that has to do with,

01:03:11
say, not quite hollywood or just like anything that scott aren't

01:03:16
here in a day.

01:03:17
Medina, and that's when they're at the family reunion, the

01:03:20
unofficial family reunion at the yeah, well, when they all catch

01:03:21
up.

01:03:21
And then Dame Edna, and that's when they're at the family

01:03:22
reunion, the unofficial family reunion at the yeah, when they

01:03:24
all catch up.

01:03:24
And then they're talking about homosexuality and stuff.

01:03:29
And that's when RT Edna says that quote I may be

01:03:33
old-fashioned young woman, but lesbianism has always left a

01:03:37
nasty taste in my mouth.

01:03:40
Speaker 1: They play that clip on everything.

01:03:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I heard that I went oh, that's where.

01:03:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty funny, both these movies, right,

01:03:52
and going back to the disclaimer and all that sort of

01:03:54
stuff, both these movies.

01:03:55
Sometimes when I laugh at them a lot, when something happens

01:03:59
and I laugh a lot, I'm kind of like I don't know if I should be

01:04:02
laughing at this.

01:04:03
Speaker 3: No, the amount of times I've felt so wrong, like

01:04:06
there's one, are you allowed to censor?

01:04:09
Can you please censor what I'm about to say?

01:04:11
Speaker 1: I'll try Can.

01:04:12
Speaker 3: One.

01:04:12
Are you allowed to censor, Can you please?

01:04:14
Speaker 1: censor what I'm about to say.

01:04:15
I'll try.

01:04:15
Speaker 3: Can you put a beep in it please?

01:04:16
Yeah, I'll do something like that.

01:04:17
I'll get more lawyers on you, but they're talking about well,

01:04:22
Barry says something in regards to and I just went.

01:04:26
Oh goodness, I don't know how long I can put up with this.

01:04:30
Speaker 1: It just made me feel so uncomfortable.

01:04:32
There's a section, if you end up watching the documentary,

01:04:37
that's on the Barry McKenzie Holds His Own DVD.

01:04:38
There's a section where they've got clips from the movie

01:04:43
Because the documentary is meant to go on TV.

01:04:46
There's bits of dialogue, and there's this one bit of dialogue

01:04:50
where somebody starts talking and it's just da-da-da-da-da

01:04:55
beep, beep beep, beep.

01:04:58
Speaker 3: It's hilarious, it's really good, yeah, throughout

01:05:01
the whole thing where he just goes through all these escapades

01:05:05
and they're being kidnapped and then Kev escapes and ends up

01:05:11
fighting Barry, because you know the twin rivalry.

01:05:14
Of course Kev is meant to be the highly strong, very

01:05:19
religious, just a preacher, and Barrington is the more loose

01:05:25
cannon.

01:05:25
Speaker 1: He's the most loose cannon.

01:05:26
Yeah, yeah.

01:05:27
Speaker 3: But actually when he says Barrington, if you've got a

01:05:31
copy of Sean McAuliffe's the McAuliffe Tonight, when he did

01:05:37
his talk show in 2003 on Channel 9, he's actually interviewing

01:05:43
his hero, barry Humphries, and Sean actually says can I call

01:05:50
you Barrington?

01:05:50
So I think that's a nice little homage.

01:05:54
Speaker 1: Nice little homage there, yeah.

01:05:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I just want to point that out.

01:05:59
There's a little thing for you.

01:06:00
But the fact that when they get locked up and Barry gets told

01:06:07
by a ghost how to escape because it's his long-lost Uncle Arthur

01:06:13
, it's like, oh, I built this hole to get it and that's where

01:06:17
he goes, you know, they get out and it leads into the sewerage

01:06:20
pipes.

01:06:20
He's up, literally up Shit Creek.

01:06:23
Speaker 1: And that's where they end up, getting on the boat to

01:06:25
England.

01:06:26
Yeah, that's right, yeah.

01:06:27
Speaker 3: And then when they're walking through the streets of

01:06:29
London, there's shit all over the footpath.

01:06:32
Speaker 1: Yeah and then when they're walking through the

01:06:35
streets of London, there's shit all over the footpath.

01:06:36
I was going to say when we were talking about the first movie I

01:06:38
don't know if it's so much with this movie, but the first movie

01:06:40
apparently they were really like guerrilla filmmaking, like

01:06:42
they had no permits to film so they would just turn up and

01:06:45
start filming and in the boarding house that was like all

01:06:50
messy where Curly lived and stuff like that they were

01:06:54
throwing stuff on the floor and dog shit and stuff like that

01:06:58
just to make it look like that.

01:06:59
I don't know where.

01:07:01
You know.

01:07:02
Once again, this is Barry Humphreys overdoing things, of

01:07:05
course, and the dog shit all over the road.

01:07:10
Speaker 3: Quality stuff.

01:07:12
Speaker 1: And it's in the same scene where he's slipping on the

01:07:13
dog shit all over the road Quality stuff.

01:07:14
And it's in the same scene where he's slipping on the dog

01:07:15
shit and he gets reintroduced to his psychiatrist again.

01:07:18
That's right and he vomits on him for the second time.

01:07:21
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:07:24
Speaker 1: It's hilarious.

01:07:25
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:07:26
Speaker 1: I laughed, even though I felt bad.

01:07:29
Speaker 3: But then later on, when they go to the immigration

01:07:32
department or, you know, when they're showing the thing where

01:07:36
the immigration department's actually in quiz show.

01:07:39
Yeah, yeah, so this is how they do it, and then you know who

01:07:42
the host was.

01:07:42
No, he looked familiar.

01:07:44
Speaker 1: I didn't look him up though.

01:07:45
Speaker 3: The host is Don Spencer.

01:07:48
Oh, it is, and if you're my generation, you grew up with Don

01:07:53
Spencer hosting play school.

01:07:55
Speaker 1: That's right, I knew his face was familiar.

01:07:58
Speaker 3: The father of Daniel Spencer.

01:08:02
Speaker 1: All right, and the ex-father-in-law of Russell

01:08:05
Crowe.

01:08:05
Okay, did he also have a song called Feathers, furs and Fins

01:08:09
or something?

01:08:10
Was that him?

01:08:10
It sounds familiar, but Don Spencer, wow have a song called

01:08:16
feathers, furs and fins or something is that him sounds

01:08:17
familiar, but don spencer wow, that's great.

01:08:19
Speaker 3: That's really good for him to be really harsh.

01:08:21
I feel very ochre uh, and you know what is the uh?

01:08:28
What's what country is the arsehole of the world?

01:08:31
Speaker 1: it's really funny that sequence, because they get

01:08:34
they give them two questions that are like obviously the

01:08:38
answer is australian, australia, and then they give them the one

01:08:41
question where obviously the answer is england, right yeah,

01:08:44
and it's like this is how you get into the country and the

01:08:48
fact that they uh, he quizzes him on his sexuality as a

01:08:52
throwaway, and then it's like, well, beg your pardon.

01:08:55
And then he goes straight to the camera, the section, whatever

01:09:00
it is yeah, yeah, I'll say the word they use a lot and I won't

01:09:06
beep it out, but just beware, they use it a lot and they use

01:09:09
the word poofters all the time in these two movies.

01:09:11
Yeah, and it's scary, you know, like I'll get a bit serious

01:09:19
here, like the amount of times that that word was just used in

01:09:22
the vernacular in the 70s and I remember right because I'm that

01:09:27
old, but I remember and it wasn't.

01:09:30
It's a terrible thing to use.

01:09:32
It's a terrible thing to use.

01:09:33
It's a terrible word to use now .

01:09:35
And it probably was, and it definitely was then.

01:09:38
Not probably, it definitely was then, but just the fact that it

01:09:41
was said so freely in those days, yeah, it was like it was

01:09:46
unbelievable.

01:09:47
It changed it was crazy.

01:09:50
Speaker 3: Put the bat up.

01:09:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think this film and I think the other

01:09:55
thing that gets this film and I made a note before in the first

01:09:58
movie when Barry first meets up with Curly and they go to the

01:10:05
bar and then something else happens.

01:10:07
They come back and Curly's in his room with the, with the

01:10:11
shayla, and they start wrestling .

01:10:15
Speaker 3: They're drinking and wrestling yeah, with his mate

01:10:18
and uh and it's almost like this , um homoerotic kind of fighting

01:10:24
that's like in fright.

01:10:26
Speaker 1: yeah, that's what I think it kind of reminded me of

01:10:28
is waking fright, where it's kind of like, and then I think

01:10:32
about it and I'm like this is a thing that blokes do Like, not

01:10:38
in a homoerotic way, get pissed and wrestle.

01:10:41
Get pissed and wrestle.

01:10:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, they go, you having a go, yeah, and they get

01:10:46
into it.

01:10:47
Speaker 1: It's really bizarre.

01:10:48
I've seen it.

01:10:48
I've seen it right no-transcript.

01:10:48
I've seen it right, it's nuts and once again it's Barry

01:10:55
Humphrey's observations, right.

01:10:58
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:11:00
Speaker 1: And it's quite interesting all this sort of

01:11:03
stuff.

01:11:03
Chantelle Conturi is still beautiful in this movie and I

01:11:09
love like is she Zizi?

01:11:10
She's like the vampire, the woman vampire, right.

01:11:14
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:11:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's quite funny in this movie as well.

01:11:17
She doesn't have any lines or anything.

01:11:19
Speaker 3: But I love the fact, when they do confront Count

01:11:23
Plasma and the big brawl and stuff, where suddenly the chef

01:11:30
who is the.

01:11:31
Chinese guy.

01:11:31
Yeah, the cliche just kicks everyone's ass.

01:11:37
Speaker 1: Until they spray him with beer.

01:11:39
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:11:39
Speaker 1: They spray him with Fosters and that's it.

01:11:41
It's like the demise of Count Plasma with the crucifix made of

01:11:47
Fosters cans.

01:11:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, from good old Kev who puts that together.

01:11:54
Speaker 1: And they're steel cans.

01:11:55
They're big cans.

01:11:57
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.

01:11:57
Speaker 1: I don't know if you buy those size anymore.

01:11:59
They're full-on steel cans.

01:12:01
Speaker 3: Everything will be in tallies now.

01:12:03
Yeah, yeah, but I just love that Collard, who was their

01:12:09
French mate, who was helping him everywhere, every scene that he

01:12:13
went, basically them being the tourist guide for him, and he

01:12:18
always had the French bread with him.

01:12:20
And when one of the plasma's goons, you know, went to attack

01:12:28
Barry and Colin steps in front of him and stops the thing and

01:12:35
the gun gets impaled by the French stick Because we see them

01:12:39
on the plane.

01:12:40
The baguette yeah.

01:12:43
Speaker 1: When they're flying to Transylvania to get dropped.

01:12:45
It looks like they've just taken stock footage of

01:12:48
parachuters getting dropped into , I don't know, somewhere in the

01:12:52
back of Camden or something like that.

01:12:53
Right, and they're sitting there and they're whittling

01:12:59
steaks.

01:12:59
Right and he's whittling his baguette, yeah that's right.

01:13:03
That's what he uses.

01:13:06
Speaker 3: Well, I just love the fact that the best line which I

01:13:10
was in stitches laughing because it just tickled my bones

01:13:13
right where Barry goes oh poor, this is after Colin's passed

01:13:19
away he goes.

01:13:19
Oh poor old Colin, he'd give away his arsehole and shit

01:13:22
through his ribs.

01:13:26
Speaker 1: Well, that was brilliant.

01:13:27
Yeah, there's some good lines in this one.

01:13:29
Yeah, I do like, like I said, I keep coming back to the song,

01:13:34
but I do like the song about you know, the song about Rat Bag.

01:13:40
What's a Rat Bag?

01:13:41
I think it's quite clever, even if it is politically incorrect

01:13:45
in a lot of ways.

01:13:46
Speaker 3: You mean this movie's politically correct Shock

01:13:48
horror.

01:13:51
Speaker 1: Especially the line about someone he starts off.

01:13:55
It's his uncle or something he talks about being a rat bag and

01:13:59
his uncle thinks Hitler's a Jew.

01:14:01
Yeah, something like that that sort of stuff and it's really

01:14:05
funny, but they're all very vaudevillian kind of songs.

01:14:09
Speaker 3: And it kind of breaks the tension too.

01:14:11
Speaker 1: It does a bit yeah.

01:14:12
Speaker 3: It's like just a reminder.

01:14:14
Hey, this is a major parody, this is do not take this movie

01:14:19
seriously.

01:14:20
Speaker 1: Yeah.

01:14:20
Speaker 3: So it's like that it breaks that.

01:14:24
It just breaks that tension.

01:14:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, my recommendation would be like if

01:14:28
you've got an open mind, you really should check these movies

01:14:32
out.

01:14:32
It's it's kind of like you'll see a lot of stuff that will

01:14:36
blow your mind in regards to what's acceptable today versus

01:14:40
what was acceptable then yeah but.

01:14:43
But I think has a has a bit of a time capsule of comedy.

01:14:49
Speaker 3: They're perfect well, the best way to think about it

01:14:52
is if you're after something, that is, if you want to look up

01:14:55
the definition of vulgar and tasteless, you'll see Barry

01:14:59
McKenzie under that.

01:15:00
So if you're really after that, then this is the perfect

01:15:04
example of really leave your brain at the door and then Paul

01:15:10
Foster's all over it.

01:15:11
So just be prepared.

01:15:12
Leave your brain at the door and then Paul fosters all over

01:15:13
it.

01:15:14
So just be prepared.

01:15:14
If you want something that's offensive, then yeah, go for it.

01:15:17
Speaker 1: Yeah.

01:15:18
So before we close this out, I have two questions.

01:15:21
One is Barry McKenzie a virgin?

01:15:25
Speaker 3: Good point, he gets close to it, but all I can keep

01:15:33
thinking is that he keeps failing the practical.

01:15:37
Speaker 4: He seems to like for want of a better term pull out.

01:15:43
Speaker 3: Well, I guess it's because he doesn't have any of

01:15:46
the beef and prawn curry down his pants.

01:15:49
Oh my God, I forgot about that from the first movie, I'd say

01:15:55
that after maybe this he does get laid or whatever.

01:15:58
But I'd say that he gets close, probably to second base or

01:16:03
anything, but never gets any further.

01:16:06
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a virgin, because he tends to

01:16:09
early in the first movie.

01:16:11
A few of his mates are ragging on him about being a virgin or

01:16:15
something like that, or making some sort of saying that he is

01:16:20
and he's pushing back and they're asking him about women

01:16:23
on the flight and all this and he's like, oh no, everything was

01:16:27
good and she was fantastic and all this sort of stuff.

01:16:29
Speaker 3: And then he did lie about something.

01:16:31
Speaker 1: Typical bloke.

01:16:32
Right yeah, Typical young bloke .

01:16:35
Speaker 3: Always talking himself up.

01:16:37
Speaker 1: We've probably all done it when we were young.

01:16:38
I get the feeling he's a virgin .

01:16:41
I don't know.

01:16:42
I'll go with that.

01:16:45
Speaker 4: Yeah.

01:16:46
Speaker 3: But I'd say, after all these events, especially

01:16:48
after when his aunt gets knighted, becomes a dame thanks

01:16:55
to Goth and Lady Flo.

01:16:58
Speaker 1: How good is the scene , lady.

01:17:00
Speaker 3: Flo, what am I saying ?

01:17:01
Speaker 1: What's his wife's name?

01:17:04
Speaker 3: Lady Flo's bloody Sir Joe.

01:17:06
Yeah, my apologies, that's offensive.

01:17:09
Speaker 1: Joe Biolchi-Peterson got to remember that guy Jeez.

01:17:11
Who'd Got to remember that guy Jeez?

01:17:13
Who would want to remember him?

01:17:15
Don't you worry about that, margaret, margaret Wickham.

01:17:20
Yeah, margaret, my apologies.

01:17:21
I remembered it.

01:17:22
Without the internet, how's that?

01:17:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Margaret, and meeting him at the airport,

01:17:28
and then that's when Aunty Edna became Dame Edna.

01:17:33
Speaker 1: Yes.

01:17:33
Speaker 3: And that's where, from there on, auntie Edna was

01:17:36
referred to as Dame.

01:17:38
Speaker 1: And that's kind of like the beginning, right?

01:17:39
If you're looking for a point of where Dame Edna became Dame

01:17:44
Edna, that's it that movie Went from Suburban Housewife to Dame

01:17:48
because of these movies.

01:17:49
So it's like that evolution with these movies but what a

01:17:53
coup to get the prime minister of australia in your movie as a

01:17:56
cameo oh yeah it's.

01:17:59
Speaker 3: It's just fantastic, like obviously the money was a

01:18:02
bit right.

01:18:02
So or he's because he loves his goff, loved his uh drinking um

01:18:09
and he loved being the.

01:18:10
He always appealed to the Aussie larrikin, kind of like

01:18:14
Bob Hawke type thing.

01:18:15
Yeah.

01:18:16
Speaker 1: I think Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke would have loved

01:18:20
the Barry McKenzie movies.

01:18:21
Speaker 3: Well, the fact that Bob Hawke, he did make an

01:18:24
appearance in a country practice and wasn't he part of.

01:18:28
Did he make an appearance in Kingswood Country as well?

01:18:31
Speaker 1: Might have.

01:18:31
Speaker 3: Well, I know that Graham Kennedy did, yeah, but

01:18:34
like Bob Hawke, they just love their culture, their arts and

01:18:39
culture.

01:18:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's true .

01:18:41
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:18:42
Speaker 1: Well, they did a lot for the arts right.

01:18:44
Speaker 3: Exactly yeah.

01:18:45
Speaker 1: That's why I like Labor government, so let's not

01:18:47
talk politics there.

01:18:48
Yeah, I think the other thing that got me that scene where

01:18:51
they come back there's a brass band playing.

01:18:55
So give you some background when I was really young, at

01:18:59
school, like in year seven, I started playing musical

01:19:04
instruments and I was in a school brass band at St Pat's at

01:19:07
.

01:19:07
Sutherland.

01:19:08
If anyone went there, hey, how you doing.

01:19:12
Speaker 3: Delete the podcast.

01:19:15
Speaker 1: Anyway, after I finished school, or near the end

01:19:17
of finishing school, before I left school, I joined the

01:19:23
Sutherland Shire Silver Band, which was like the Shire Brass

01:19:27
Band in Sutherland, and their uniform was exactly the same as

01:19:33
the uniform in the movie of the brass band so do you think

01:19:37
they're associated with?

01:19:39
I'm trying to find out and I can't find out.

01:19:41
So I don't know if anybody that has any link to the Sutherland

01:19:46
Shire silver band knows.

01:19:47
I thought I would have known, but when I was in that band I

01:19:50
had no interest in these sort of movies or anything like that

01:19:53
really.

01:19:53
So if anyone knows I would love to know whether it was like a

01:19:57
cameo by them.

01:19:58
Then, when I was watching the documentary on the same disc at

01:20:02
a premiere, there was a brass band at the premiere.

01:20:04
It was the same band, oh wow.

01:20:06
Now it could have been a different Shire band in New

01:20:10
South Wales or in Sydney, because there was plenty of them

01:20:13
, but the uniform looked absolutely identical right down

01:20:19
to like the thing on the sleeves and it was amazing.

01:20:24
So I don't know I've got to make.

01:20:26
I'm going to ask him if he knows anything about it, because

01:20:28
he was in the Southern Shire Silver Band as well.

01:20:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, If anyone was in the movie, part of the band

01:20:34
in the movie please write in.

01:20:36
Speaker 1: Let me know.

01:20:37
Speaker 3: Yes.

01:20:37
Speaker 1: Email peterdingomoviepodcom.

01:20:40
I think that's it.

01:20:42
The other question I have for you was could you make these

01:20:48
films today?

01:20:48
No, no.

01:20:48
If you were going to, what changes would you have to make

01:20:55
and would the resulting film have the same impact?

01:20:59
Speaker 3: What changes would be made?

01:21:01
Speaker 1: It would be a very short film.

01:21:02
It would be a very short film.

01:21:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, In fact it will probably be just the film,

01:21:07
would be just the credits and then everything else.

01:21:11
The main parts that would have been cut from the silver screen

01:21:16
would be known as deleted scenes on the Blu-ray edition.

01:21:22
Speaker 1: So yeah, you couldn't make this movie.

01:21:24
Speaker 3: No, you get close to it Like if anything that would

01:21:29
be, dare I say to it, like if anything that would be, dare I

01:21:34
say, partially resemble, would be anything that comedian Paul

01:21:37
Fenwick would make.

01:21:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe.

01:21:39
Speaker 3: That's the only thing that I'm thinking of, or it

01:21:42
would be Crocodile Dundee.

01:21:43
Yeah, which is?

01:21:45
Speaker 1: basically what it is, in a way.

01:21:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it would be something similar to that in a

01:21:50
way.

01:21:50
Yeah, so it will be something similar to that, say, if you

01:21:53
watch your Howzo's or Fat Pizza, like that type of humour.

01:21:57
That would be the closest of this generation of that Barry

01:22:03
McKenzie type thing.

01:22:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could get to, yeah.

01:22:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then again, these days, if you make

01:22:08
anything like that, you'll just slap it on YouTube or TikTok or

01:22:10
whatever.

01:22:11
Get your clicks.

01:22:13
Speaker 1: It's interesting.

01:22:13
I don't know how you couldn't the words they use in this film,

01:22:20
like there's so many derogatory terms for sexuality, race, all

01:22:24
sorts of stuff in this film.

01:22:25
There's no way you could Culture as well.

01:22:27
Culture right.

01:22:27
Speaker 3: So racism, oh, you mentioned that Sorry.

01:22:28
But if you want an unholy, yeah , culture as well, culture right

01:22:30
.

01:22:30
So racism, oh, you mentioned that sorry.

01:22:32
Speaker 1: But if you want an unholy trinity, you've got these

01:22:36
two films and the TV series Kingswood Country.

01:22:40
Speaker 3: Oh yes.

01:22:40
Speaker 1: Which you could never make today either.

01:22:42
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:22:43
Speaker 1: All right.

01:22:43
Do we have anything else about these two movies?

01:22:46
This has been one of these episodes that we've been all

01:22:49
over the shop, so my apologies to anyone that's been trying to

01:22:53
keep up.

01:22:53
I think go watch the movies if you haven't seen them, and

01:22:58
you'll figure out where we're going Exactly, yeah.

01:23:00
So we've had to skirt around little bits and pieces.

01:23:05
But yeah, my summary is they're both fun.

01:23:10
The second one for me is better than the first, but there's

01:23:15
some charm about Barry McKenzie himself, right?

01:23:19
I think it's because he's oblivious to what he's saying

01:23:24
half the time.

01:23:25
It's not because he's saying it because he wants to be racist

01:23:29
or he wants to be homophobic, it's just the language of the

01:23:35
time and he's not even aware, right?

01:23:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, quite docile about it.

01:23:40
Yeah, yeah, for me it is.

01:23:44
If you want to know the history , I see this as the development

01:23:51
of Edna to how she became like this big star.

01:23:56
So yeah, the evolution of Auntie Edna.

01:24:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a good place to start if you want

01:24:06
to look at that.

01:24:06
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:24:07
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just thinking how different this is

01:24:08
going to be from the episode I'm recording next week.

01:24:11
I'm doing Talk To Me next week.

01:24:13
Speaker 3: Oh goodness, Couldn't be more different Wow.

01:24:17
Speaker 1: So yeah, exactly.

01:24:18
Anyway, it's all good, I don't have anything else.

01:24:23
Do you have much else to add?

01:24:24
Anything else to add?

01:24:25
Speaker 3: In regards to these movies yeah, no, I enjoyed these

01:24:29
.

01:24:29
Yeah, I liked the first one.

01:24:31
I, no, I enjoyed these.

01:24:32
Yeah, I liked the first one.

01:24:33
I just wish it had the budget Like the second one had more

01:24:35
structure, dare I say, and more money.

01:24:39
But they incorporated that into the first one.

01:24:42
The first one was very rough, but I enjoyed the first one a

01:24:50
lot more because to me, the second one seemed like the

01:24:53
Ockerisms phrases were just, you know, turned up to 11.

01:24:57
I felt like they had to seg some stuff in.

01:25:02
But, barry McKenzie, the first one was just a bit more laid

01:25:06
back and more acceptable.

01:25:08
That's my thoughts anyway.

01:25:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, cool, all right, Okay, so let me know

01:25:14
what's happening with the Champagne Comedy podcast.

01:25:16
Where are you up to with that?

01:25:20
Speaker 3: At the time of this recording, we're halfway through

01:25:22
Frontline Season 2, but we're still going strong with it,

01:25:27
trying to tag down people who have starred in the show or have

01:25:33
a connection.

01:25:33
So we've got some things, I've got some ideas up my sleeve, but

01:25:37
once we get through Frontline we're also going to do Funky

01:25:40
Squad and all that other stuff and yeah, it's still going

01:25:46
strong, not bad for a COVID podcast.

01:25:49
Speaker 1: I was going to say yeah.

01:25:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, it started in 2020 and yeah, four years later,

01:25:56
we're still going strong.

01:25:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, mine's a bit of a COVID podcast too, actually.

01:25:59
Yeah, same sort of thing.

01:26:02
So excuse my ignorance, because I'm probably going to tell you

01:26:06
that I haven't listened.

01:26:06
Are you doing things like Bajas and stuff like that?

01:26:11
Speaker 3: We've done Bajas in the olden days when we did the

01:26:15
Late Show.

01:26:16
So, we've already covered all two seasons of the Late Show and

01:26:19
if you follow on social media such as TLS, champagne, on

01:26:27
Twitex, whatever you want to call it, but on TikTok as well,

01:26:31
I'm trying to do little videos and throwbacks of our episodes

01:26:34
from like four years ago, uh, and just do little visual

01:26:38
highlights.

01:26:39
Now we've covered those as they went through the episodes.

01:26:43
So we watched them broken up and with the audience laughter,

01:26:47
which gave it a whole new perspective since the original

01:26:51
broadcast.

01:26:51
So, no, we're doing pretty good and it's a fan TV recap thing.

01:26:59
And then we talk about all the other news that is associated

01:27:01
with the DJ and Working Dog and other bits and pieces.

01:27:05
But yeah, and we also go on tangents.

01:27:08
So we'll talk about one thing.

01:27:10
Next thing you know we're talking about program guides of

01:27:14
the time and Healthy, wealthy and Wise gets a lot of the

01:27:17
mention.

01:27:18
So yeah, and it just goes on from there.

01:27:24
So if you want something, if you want to throw back to

01:27:26
something that happened in the 90s, yeah, champagne Comedy

01:27:31
podcast and just nerd out.

01:27:34
And yeah, the episodes are quite long, so be prepared to fall

01:27:39
asleep on the couch while Mrs Gort's ranting.

01:27:43
Speaker 1: And what other projects have you got going for

01:27:46
socials and stuff like that?

01:27:47
Speaker 3: Well, I still run my pop culture site, my Geek

01:27:51
Culture, so it's taken not a hiatus, but it's coming back

01:27:55
shortly with some extra content like interviews and stuff.

01:27:59
It's just trying to find the time to do it on top of a

01:28:02
full-time job, so, um, but yeah, and I'm quite active on tw, so

01:28:10
mattfultoncomau, and yeah, I'm just around the traps so I tweet

01:28:18
too much.

01:28:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, Simple as that.

01:28:20
I see quite a bit Well, so do I , but you know.

01:28:23
Speaker 3: Well, I do that because I'm bored, I'm in bed

01:28:26
and I just go oh, I'll see this and I'll just take the mickey

01:28:28
out of it.

01:28:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all good, all good.

01:28:34
Speaker 3: And yeah, but that's pretty much what I'm up to.

01:28:36
So, other than that, mattfultoncomau is my extensive

01:28:39
CV of pure crap.

01:28:41
Excellent, excellent.

01:28:44
Speaker 1: All right.

01:28:44
Well, thanks for coming on.

01:28:46
It's great.

01:28:46
It's always good to have you on .

01:28:48
Speaker 3: Thank you, peter.

01:28:49
It is again.

01:28:51
I'll say it every single time and I'll say it again it's an

01:28:58
absolute honour that you allow me to nerd out on these Aussie

01:29:01
films.

01:29:01
Speaker 1: No worries, it's always good doing films with you

01:29:04
.

01:29:04
I think we've done some good ones.

01:29:05
We did Houseboat Horror.

01:29:06
Speaker 3: Yep, I always throw back to that every time

01:29:10
especially like.

01:29:10
Infinity.

01:29:14
Speaker 1: I was only looking at the Blu-ray again the other day

01:29:16
when I was actually putting my Dead End Drive-In set that I got

01:29:17
from Umbrella into the thing and I was like, oh, I really

01:29:21
need to watch Houseboat.

01:29:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a golden classic.

01:29:27
It is a great one.

01:29:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking forward to all the stuff that

01:29:31
Umbrella released anyway too.

01:29:33
Speaker 1: So much, so much coming up.

01:29:34
Yeah, cool, cool, all right, man.

01:29:36
Well, thank you so much for coming on.

01:29:38
Speaker 3: Thank you.

01:29:39
Speaker 1: And when we come back we'll talk about what's coming

01:29:41
up next.

01:29:46
Speaker 2: And now preview time.

01:29:48
When it comes to entertainment, you can't beat a good film, so

01:29:58
let's take a look at what's coming your way.

01:30:03
Speaker 4: You visiting tonight.

01:30:04
You want a turn?

01:30:06
Eh, my mum leaves at nine.

01:30:08
Speaker 1: See you at ten.

01:30:09
Speaker 4: My mom leaves at 9.

01:30:11
So you're 10.

01:30:11
Where'd you get it from, anyway ?

01:30:18
Speaker 1: Apparently, it was the hand of someone that could

01:30:19
connect with the dead.

01:30:20
I heard it was the hand of a Satanist.

01:30:24
The other hand's just out there , white people, shit man, I tell

01:30:31
you you all right, let's do this, you know the drill say

01:30:40
talk to me, talk to me next on a dingo ate my movie.

01:30:48
I'll be'll be joined by Brandon Hardy to talk about the 2022

01:30:53
film.

01:30:53
Talk To Me.

01:30:54
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01:30:57
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01:30:58
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01:31:18
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01:31:36
Speaker 2: A rat bag is a sheila or a bloke.

01:31:39
Or a bloke, who's kind of funny , but like who never sees the

01:31:46
joke.

01:31:47
Now take me mother's brother, uncle Graham.

01:31:52
He's a raven, bloody ratbag through and through.

01:31:56
He collects old kettles, makes his own wine out of nettles and

01:32:00
he reckons that old Hitler was a Jew.

01:32:02
He's always seen flying saucers landing bringing ratbags to the

01:32:07
earth from outer space, and he's written in his will that

01:32:10
when he dies we have to spill his ash on Melbourne Cup Day

01:32:13
underneath the race.

01:32:14
Oh, yes, he is.

01:32:16
Ah, ratbag, that's him.

01:32:19
The Raven Ratbag, that's him.

01:32:21
He's a screwball, he's a nutcase, there's no doubt.

01:32:24
And if you think you're Ratbag free, then just shake your

01:32:27
family trees.

01:32:28
He's a great big Raven Ratbag's , thank you.

01:32:47
Or you pin your face on Scientology.

01:32:50
If you grow organic food, go horse riding in the nude,

01:32:53
there's a very faintest chance that you could be, could be, a

01:32:57
ratbag, a raven ratbag.

01:32:59
You're a scrooge or you're a nutcase, there's no doubt.

01:33:02
And if you think you're ratbag free, then just shake your

01:33:05
family tree.

01:33:06
See, the great big raven ratbag's born now.

01:33:08
You're a ratbag if you turn on your alarm clock, though you

01:33:13
know it never, ever makes you wake.

01:33:15
You're a ratbag if you rise with a burst of exercise, a

01:33:20
count of 40 every time you chew your steak, you're a ratbag.

01:33:24
If you live upon a commune or you sail the seas alone upon a

01:33:29
yacht, ratbag, ratbag, flare, coal squatters, housewife

01:33:40
potters, anonymous phoners, sperm bag donors, pakistani

01:33:42
waiters, book deliberators, mystics from Thailand, everyone

01:33:46
in Ireland, in fact.

01:33:47
Looking round this hall, I ascertain out of us all that

01:33:50
there's just one bastard in here who is not, who's not?

01:33:55
Ah, ratbag, a raving Ratbag, a screwball, a nutcase, there's no

01:34:04
doubt.

01:34:05
And if you think you're Ratbag, free, then just shake your

01:34:09
family tree.

01:34:10
See the great big raving Ratbag's falling out.

01:34:14
Ah.

01:34:15
Speaker 4: Ratbag, a raving Ratbag © BF-WATCH TV 2021.

01:34:25
Speaker 2: Raving, raving, rat-bag-balling time.

01:34:47
Speaker 1: Next, on A Dingo Ate my Movie, we'll be taking a full

01:34:57
180-degree turn and we'll be talking about 1920.

01:34:59
Next, on A Dingo Ate my Movie, we'll be talking about the 2020.

01:35:01
Next,