Celebrating the 28th Anniversary of Daniel Stern Mugging in the Woods (Bushwhacked) (ft.  

The 4th August 1995 will go down in history as a day in history

The US was mercilessly wracked by Bushwhacked Fever, then Macarena Fever, then Spice Fever. It's a miracle anyone survived to repopulate.

The scout leader guy is what would result if Gilbert Gottfried and Tommy Lee Jones got Tuvix'd in a transporter accident.

“What’s the prognosis, doctor?” “This is the worst case of Bushwhacked Fever I’ve ever seen!” “My god. Prep the furnace.”

The fact that RU-vid exists, and that you guys are a thing, will always bring me great joy and happiness.

Happy Bushwhackeversary! Hope you left out milk and cookies for Daniel Stern!

BUSH WHACKED

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had Bushwacked fever in 1995. Daniel Stern's constant Muggin was hilarious.

This is so much less expensive than therapy: my greatest memory of this movie is...believing "Bushwhacked Fever" was genuinely a trend sweeping the nation, renting the movie from Blockbuster, and trying to talk to LITERALLY ANYONE about it at school the next day. Turns out: I was Patient 0...and also Patient 1 and only. The part at the end where the kid INEXPLICABLY and hilariously trips and soars over the waterfall DID genuinely terrify me as well.

AWOOOOOOGAH!

Allison, Phelan and Mathew, your rapport is so infectious that you can make your own podcast out of it 😊 Thanks for the joy!

Totally unprepared for this to be a FilmBrain origin story video!

It’s always a joy when Matthew joins you

The beauty of Allison and Matthew's favorite childhood movies both having Daniel Stern in them is truly something special. The Marv is with us all, praise unto him

For some reason I thought Daniel Stern was dead but turns out he's not and I feel strangely happier now. So thank you for that.

My husband actually won something called the Tenderfoot Award when he was in summer camp as a kid. He can't remember what it was or why he won it, but it was pre-Bushwhacked. Life holds many mysteries.

Seeing Allison & Phelous doing a review with Matthew Buck AKA Film Brain brings back happy memories.

In absolute fairness, every film Daniel Stern starred in after Home Alone 1 and 2 could be pitched as a spinoff. His character from the City Slickers films was almost like 'Marv rehabilitated'. The horror movie C.H.U.D could almost be a prequel in Marv's troubled life before hooking up with his older brother to form the Wet Bandits.

Yay the terrific trio is back in full force ❤

The Marv Electrocution Scream remains an all time 10 out of 10 scream take.

The terrific trio of Allison, Phelan and Matthew are bringing back the Bushwhacked fever!

One has to Marv-el at Daniel Stern's capacity for physical comedy.

I've watched this in cinema, and my young self came out thinking: "This was not bad. Not exactly bad." Imagine some 10-years kid thinking that.

BUSH -> |

The key difference is that in Home Alone, Marv is a bad man getting hurt, and thus it serves justice, but when you make him a well meaning idiot and hurt him to this extent, then the universe no longer seems just, but capricious, and overly cruel. Even children understand this powerful difference in the comedy. Same for Ed O' Neil in Dutch. When awful stuff happens to him, we feel bad for the guy, he's doing his best in a hard situation there, but when it happens to Al Bundy we rejoice, for he is a man as odious as the way his world treats him, and so the universe feels just. What this movie makes me think of is Allison's review of The Stupids, from forever ago, and I'm thinking that movie had more creative ways of employing its idiocy. There was a kind of insane anti logic to it, some kind of thought went into it at some point to how those people interpreted their world incorrectly, but this is just endless slapstick, and an excellent example of diminishing returns in action.

Honestly lovely to see pals being friends.

A fantastic trio to watch a movie nights with!

I'm so glad you all have remained friends over the years. It's great when you get together, and I definitely had a smile on my face through this whole episode! Matthew was a really cute kid! My late mother loved Daniel Stern in Home Alone, so even though this movie is probably terrible, I'm pretty sure she would have enjoyed it just for him. I will also say, as a huge Anthony Heald fan thanks to his time on Boston Public, he definitely deserved better than this! :D Anyways, thanks for this hilarious vid, and I guess the only thing left to say is.....Tenderfoot!

I get so happy whenever I hear the Movie Nights music

I remember watching this movie back in the day when it was on pay-per-view and it was on one of the same movie all day channels. The only thing I remember about it was "aaa-oooo-gaaaa". I do have it on DVD so it might be due for a rewatch, and Mathew recording Bushwhacked with the Tyco Videocam is the coolest thing ever.

Thank you for this insightful look into Mathew Buck's origins.

My brother and I quote this all the time. It was a repeated rental. Showed it to a friend years ago and he was cracking up at the part where they are climbing on the driveway.

“Oops, all Marvs” 🤣🤣🤣

What a great gathering of the minds! You three are amazing together. Matt being the foremost expert on Bushwhacked is much better than the movie deserves yet I would have it no other way.

Love the rapport between you three!

This movie lived in my head for so long. When I was little I always wondered if you could punch someone's fake teeth out.

Bushwhacked and Heavyweights were my go tos as a kid.

I remember seeing this on youtube a few years ago when any movie could be on here without copyright and I honestly liked it. Glad I watched it before my childhood ended.

Wow, Matthew was such an adorable child! That picture looks so much like my brother when be was a kid!

The chemistry yall have together is so wonderful. Just a truly great vid to watch

I remember the term "tenderfoot" from the Marx Brothers movie Go West, set in the wild west, where it seemed to be a term for soft city-slickers - presumably, their feet are tender because they haven't been hardened by working in the elements. I dunno how much you hear the word these days, though, so I understand why they nixed it as the title.

I'm just imagining someone at Disney+ looking for things to cut and just being utterly confused that they had Bushwacked on there to begin with.

BUSHWACKED FEVEEEEEEER!!

Love the shirt Mathew has on

They didn't even need the crime plot, they could have just had it be about a terrible person accidently ending up in the woods with kids and he learns to be a good person along the way, ending with a heartfelt moment where he saves the kids from a rockslide or something. He could have been roped into being a bodyguard for the kids as mandatory public service, only for the troop leader to bail on them, leaving Max to guide the kids. Or maybe something happens to the troop leader, they get separated. This could have so easily been fixed with a good director. Stern really should have directed it himself, maybe cast Joe Pesci in the lead instead of himself. Or Macaulay Culkin.

I kept expecting for Hannibal Lecter to show up to eat Dr. Chilton's face 😂😂 all I remember about this movie is watching it when I was a kid and being very confused by the plot until that scene by the fire when he explains it to the kids, and going ohh that's what's happening?

Nice to see the three of you together again. And maaaan ever heard of this movie, barely saw Stern after Home Alone in anything - however it seems he has not lost his touch of pratfalls and zany comedy.

I want a sequel 28 years later.

It was pretty cool to see Tom Wood in I seen that mocks The Fugitive whilst being in The Fugitive as well.

These videos never fail to make me smile. Another glorious upload Allison!

I actually miss Daniel Stern movies. Even when he was in shit, Stern was always fun to watch.

You guys have been pumping out a lot of videos lately, thank you!

Always happy to see Brian Flim guest-star!

This movie gives me so many memories from watching it a lot as a kid.

I was a scout when this came out and we loved it. Its bad but i cant hate any part of it

Another great video. Keep up the excellent work!

This was so much fun - loved hearing all the behind the scenes stuff, thanks guys for such an entertaining review!

I loved this movie as a kid. No one else knew it existed. I know it's terrible but I considered it an extension of the Home Alone universe.

BUSHWHACKED!

Another strange connection is that both this film and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls did a Cliffhanger parody within the same exact year.

I remember seeing this as a teen when it came out in theaters. Yep, I'm old. :p

lmao, it took so long for Alison to remember Little Monster. Great video.

Matt be like: "I love this film! Sure would like to know what was happening in it" :)

Not even anti vaxxers skipped their inoculation for Bushwhacked fever.

BUSH did 9-imean WHACKED

Random youtuber fact: Without his sunglasses Huggbees looks exactly like Daniel Stern

I recently watched Blue Thunder and C.H.U.D. and was completely taken aback by Daniel Sterns's non-silly performance. I just thought he was an actor only capable of mugging for the camera. And Blue Thunder made a funny backstory as to how he became one-half of the Wet Bandits.

Small Soldiers was my Bushwacked, I watched it way too much as a kid

Bushwhacked 2! - Allison Santawhacked! - Phelan

Got say everyone in this video's t-shirt game is on point!

Let's party like it's 1995! 🕺💃#Bushwhacked28

Young Ann Dowd is a trip lol

It's really a great movie. It's funny and light hearted with lots of action and some suspense. Couple that will some comedy and you get a great 90s film. It's really odd how my brain was thinking of this movie 2 weeks ago. Another re-watch as an adult and I still genuinely like this film. Stay Whacked.

Anyone got any snowballs and a jumbo coke?

Fun fact I passed many freezing nights with bad movie beat down boot leg zones and the tremor series sent phealous a knock off transmorfibles fork lift action figure once, passed the time working in the oil patch 10 years later still watching 🤙

If I ever saw or heard of this movie when I was a teenager in the 90s I have since forgotten totally. But now I know so much.

Grateful that I was inoculated for Bushwacked Fever as a child

We need a gritty remake of bushwhacked with segal.

I'm glad that we have Jon Polito, AKA Brother Seamus, in this movie, he always makes me happy.

You dont watch this movie for the plot. You watch it for Daniel Stern.

This movie sure was Bushwhacked.

*I CANNOT BELIEVE ITS NOT BOYSCOUTS!*

I love this movie. :D

Never heard of this one before!

A recent Rifftrax I bought had Daniel Stern playing a supporting role in a cheap 1980s Sampson and Delilah movie. It was so surreal and it felt kinda sad to see him play a serious role. That's what these over the top mugging 90s roles did- I kinda expected him to do something wacky but he's just a sidekick and foil for Sampson, he betrays him, get stabbed by Max Von Sydow, the end. It's more surreal than anything in Bushwhacked, which is even sadder.

Bushwacked! feels like it could be set within the universe of a series of unfortunate events

Everybody, do The Mug like a true Daniel Stern! 😱

Greg Beeman went on to be the director of seminal Disney channel original movies Under Wraps, Brink and A Ring of Endless Light

I have not seen Bushwacked and I have ner been stricken by that dreadful fever... but I can understand getting an obsession with a Not So Good movie when you catch it at the right time. Super Mario Bros was that one for me, and the damage has been grand... but it didn't set me on my career, so Filmbrain's got that one over me.

The thought of a mini FilmBrain living his best life with Bushwacked! 🤣🤣🤣🤣. We got a terrible Beauty & The Beast knock off free in some newspaper. We had a blast laughing at it but I did genuinely enjoyed it... where did it go🤔

This is the wackiest thing I’ve ever heard.

Ah this explains the bushwacked joke in Ali baba and the gold Raiders Review.

Great to see you 'crossing over' again

Anthony Heald was both punched by Daniel Stern and eaten alive by Hannibal Lecter.

Bushwhacked: technically, it's a movie.

I always remember Stern being Dilbert

Delightful

I was actually a big fan of Small Soldiers as a kid, though I would argue it was at least a competently made movie, unlike Bushwhacked apparently.

2:23 that sounds like a case in Ace Attorney or one of Professor Layton's adventures

I would watch a Bushwhacked 2 with Steven Seagal