William Castle, cinema's answer to P.T. Barnum, has a few facts that are worth correcting, because he is such a singular figure in the history of cinema and it's properly fascinating to learn about him. Firstly, The Tingler. The electrified seats were the big gimmick, but the fourth wall scene was a bit more involved than that. The scene in the film already rook place in a movie theater, in which the title creature escapes. The woman who was planted in the audience to faint as a gimmick passed out at roughly the same time as a random woman in the scene did so, which is how they get away with the announcement of "a woman has just fainted", **after** which Vincent Price announced that the creature is loose in the theater. The other is those voting cards. They were obly used for one specific film called Mr. Sardonicus. The film was billed as "the only film with the Punishment Poll", which were the cards in question. At the end of the film, Castle appears on screen (as he usually does in his films) and says he can't do a film without a gimmick, and asks the audience if the villain, who had a mildly sad backstory, had been punished enough for his crimes. The cards had a drawing of a fist with a thumb sticking out, and you held them above eyour head thumbs-up or thumbs-down. But this was all a farce, because there *was* no lenient or merciful ending. He only shot the single ending that he claimed "every audience voted for", in which the villain is shown No Mercy.
The skunk segment was quite hilarious! Ironically, my dog got skunk sprayed just this morning! Fortunately, ever since I got skunked, years ago, I keep a product that dissipates the smell, in my cupboard. So my dog & I have that experience in common❤😂😂
A friend of mine, many years ago, who was a teacher, told me a story: Apparently, another teacher at the same school had caught some boys having a competition to see who could pee the highest in the urinals. When reporting this to the headteacher, the headteacher had asked, ''So how did you react to this ? '' . The teacher who had caught the boys in this act replied, ''Well, naturally I hit the roof !'' .... and the headteacher's response was..... a resounding, ''Congratulations !''
I love Richard's buzzer. That is all😂 When you realize you just watched this a month ago... and are still happy to watch the episode 😊 9:29 "The great brown streak" Richard is too hilarious 😂 nice to see psychics were scamming folks then as they are now😂 11:33 "Is this from their website?" 😂😂 Ah so delightful to have David Mitchell on!
I grew up in the city and the country. I'll take the country smells any time. I never minded the smell of skunks and actually enjoy that smell on a highway at times, as long it was for a short stretch. I may have made this same comment on a previous viewing, but I couldn't remember. I came back months later to mention that a feminine hygiene douche will remove the smell of a skunk. Thanks for sharing.
22:45 Sandi is talking about _Mr. Sardonicus._ It was actually a choice between Mr. Sardonicus having a merciful or a punishing ending. In reality there was no merciful ending ever filmed.
I googled the tingler and all that came up was the 1959 Vincent Price Movie, The Tingler. I live in Australia and the other day i was walking to the entrance of a Pub when something out of the window a few feet above my head. People the Sphynx was never a Sphynx it started off with the head of a Jackle. It was a giant Jackle statue.
It's the spirits of dead elves. This must be one of the ones they filmed with small audiences. The audience is miked from overhead in sections so whoever is sitting directly below is winding up really hot on the track. They should have just used old laughs or left it completely flat.
It’s during Covid so they had a virtual audience on like a zoom call or something. You pick up specific people talking or laughing because it’s all digitally mixed together.
Somebody screwed up the ethanol issue. Ethanol is the alcohol we drink. It's safe as long as we drink it safely, though it burns a bit going down. It is also a preservative. That's why people sometimes describe a drunk person as being pickled. When ethanol is sold in the US as a preservative, or for other non-beverage use, it is adulterated (or "denatured"), meaning another chemical is added to make you sick if you drink it. That avoids the beverage taxes and BATFE involvement.
They pretty clearly say ethanol and formaldehyde and I can tell you now that you do not want to drink formaldehyde. Also ethanol percentages above 70% is extremely bad for you and pure ethanol is absolutely toxic
@@squiglemcsquigle8414 Pure ethanol is no more dangerous than if it is mixed with water and aged in an oak barrel to make it into whiskey. They sell nearly pure ethanol in the US under the brand Everclear as a beverage. It's... I think 95.5% ethanol. For lab use you can get 100% ethanol, but the difference between that and Everclear is meaningless, except for the taxes you have to pay. The only difference is whether you can tolerate the burn as you swallow it. It's the same ethanol. Formaldehyde is found naturally in many fruit juices (notably orange juice). As with ethanol, the dose makes the poison. I've had a face-full of it, and it burns your eyes and your nose and throat if you breathe it in, but it's a natural substance in our natural food supply, and our bodies can handle small amounts of it. My point was mostly about ethanol though. It IS the alcohol we drink in alcoholic beverages. We are all familiar with ethanol. Yeah, it can be harmful, but again, the dose makes the poison, as with everything else, including water.
Lol, it’s so funny when Sandy is just SO sure of something she doesn’t know, like the smell of skunks. 😂 Bless her heart. I wonder if she can actually remember it and how bad it is in that memory. On the scale of bad smells, skunk is like a 1. Unless it’s sprayed directly into your mouth, but you could say that about about perfume.
The Spartan adult men had long hair. At thermopylea before the battle spies saw them coming their hair. So the woman cut of their hair to act like a boy not a man, because the man stimulated to be in a homoerotic with a boy who they helped with his training.
Hmm... boys short hair, men long hair?😂 Maybe compared to other men but maybe to the WOMEN who let their hair grow since childhood ....not as long😂😂 Why do you need them to be wrong??😂
This episode was rather flat in the comedy department for some reason. I know that they didn’t have an audience in the studio, but other episodes taped under the same conditions have been better.
@@gabbleratchet1890Kangaroos and wallabies ARE marsupials but also mammals. A marsupial is a mammal that raises its newborns inside their pouch. Or did you mean that Stephen was saying that marsupials aren't mammals at all? Then yeah, that's a bit of an awkward mistake 😅
Very white British advice, when you go to the Colosseum, dont follow the directions of the guides, do whatever the fuck you want because who is gonna do anything about it.
