Last Looks: My Boyfriend's Back

0:00My childhood trauma gets even more traumatic. the truth about zombies and jason and i talk about the coen brothers for three and a half hours yes you'll hear all about this and more on today's how did this get made last looks hit the theme

0:34Oh, it's Last Looks. Last Looks. Yeah, it's Last Looks. Ooh, Last Looks. Ooh, Last Looks. Hello, all my fellow paw ticklers. It's me, your host, Paul Scheer, and welcome to How Did This Get Made? Last Looks! Where you, the listener, get to voice your issue on movies like My Boyfriend's Back, a film that discord user dr guts thinks should have the tagline my boyfriend's back it's the necrophilia good movie of the year all right pretty good thank you dr guts for that alt movie tagline and a big shout out to bears and love for that opening theme song you know the last looks episode depends on you your calls your comments your songs your alt movie taglines well how do you submit Well, it's easy.

1:30Just go on the Discord at discord.gg slash hdtgm and you can submit your own alt movie tagline. But if you are more of a song person, well, just go to hdtgm.com, click the submit a song button, and you can live the same kind of glory that Bears in Love got today when I thanked them for that opening theme song. Now, I got to tell you, we released our first ever video clip of how did this get made. This is not going to be a normal thing. We just wanted to play with it for one time. We may do it again, but I have to say the reaction to it was amazing. We got over a million views in just two days on Instagram.

2:15And I want to say this. If you like seeing us live and in person, well, guess what? this holiday season. You can see Jason, June, myself, and Jessica St. Clair all in the same room as we do our annual How Did This Get Made holiday special. That's right, December 10th, 6 p.m. Pacific time. We're all going to be in the Dark Web studio broadcasting together. It is going to be live on Veeps, but your ticket will allow you to watch it anytime. So we are live worldwide with a holiday movie yet to be announced. People, get on it. Get on it and watch it. We will love to bring you into the live chat and more because we're stepping up our game.

3:02But don't worry about that. That's in the future. Right now, we are going to get into what's on your mind. We're going to dig into the corrections and omissions of my boyfriend's back and we'll even share an exclusive deleted scene from our episode. And later in the episode, Jason stops by because we have an emergency to talk about. That's right. Vanity Fair has released three covers labeling the boys of Hollywood, which seem very similar to the Geek Squad. We have opinions and we're going to bring on our 21-year-old intern to help break it all down. So that's in just a little bit. And boy, we got a lot to say about this.

3:43anyway uh last as always i will reveal the movie for next week's episode and uh let me tell you we got so much good stuff coming up here we're bringing you into december with a lot of christmas so enjoy your thanksgiving and then go full-on christmas with how did this get made you could catch june in weapons right now streaming on hbo max uh jason is on the second season of the man on the inside. And guess what? Dark web every Monday, completely free on YouTube. We are lost in the woods and we are introducing our very first special guest. You don't want to miss that. So check all of that out. Our last episode was just for YouTube kids.

4:27We're doing weird stuff. It started off one way and we're growing. We're changing. We also got merch. Anyway, don't worry about that because right now I want to worry about you. Let's get into it. Let's talk about my boyfriend's back. We had questions. We might have even missed a few things. Here is your chance to set us straight. Fact check us if you will. It is now time for Corrections and Omissions.

5:11Thank you, Mike Thomas, for that theme song. That ruled. I love that. Let's go to the Discord. Del Preston writes, Paul said that Andrew Lowry was 23 when this came out, as does the IMDb's movie page. But the birthdate listed on Andrew's own IMDb page would have made him 29. This makes so much more sense. I was so annoyed with this piece of misinformation that I submitted an edit to IMDb to correct it and it was accepted. All right, there we go. There we go. Now, I don't understand how the movie's IMDb page is different than his own IMDb page, but Dell, you took matters into your own hand. You didn't just complain.

5:56You brought it to the manager and the manager fixed it. This is a good example of our community working together to make things better. All right. Corgi Herder writes, when the sheriff comes in to check on his daughter, Missy, he's holding a musical lesson book for accordion, guitar, piano, and organ. And it's in Spanish. We never see him play music and they never speak Spanish. Now, I checked this out. Yes, that is true. I mean, we know he didn't speak Spanish, but yes, there is a book for accordion, guitar, piano, and organ. And let me tell you, I think this movie could have used the sheriff speaking in Spanish and playing an accordion.

6:42I think it would have been really, truly the thing that brought this movie just over the edge. Now, Dr. Guts isn't just about alt-movie taglines. He's also coming to us with information. And Dr. Guts writes this. Part of the reason why the title probably doesn't make much sense is that it was originally called Johnny Zombie. And the studio changed it. Okay, now we're getting to something. Why? Well, in an interview with a writer, Dean Laurie, he explained that Disney asked to change the title and the film's original premise. Yes, Laurie said, look, the title was much better and my original script was much better.

7:16I thought, you know, it's funny because without going into the plot, there was a whole world of zombies that lived in the cemetery. This kid, Johnny, is the only one that left the cemetery to go to the prom. But the rule was as soon as you left the cemetery, you begin to decay like a regular zombie. I think, by the way, this is Paul talking, that's also part of the premise of Dead Heat. Anyway, we'll get into it. So I go to Disney for my very first meeting to get notes on the script. They say, hey, we love the script. It's so funny. The first thing we want to do is get rid of the zombies. I said, well, it's called Johnny Zombie.

7:50It's about these zombies. And they go, yeah, we just want the one zombie. So right then, literally half the movie gets thrown out. Oh my gosh, I feel bad for Dean Laurie. It's hard. It is hard to be a screenwriter in this town. I mean, now, especially because a lot of people are not working at all. But back then, Hard too. All right, let's go to the phones. Mike from New Jersey. What do you got? Hey, everyone. Big fan of the show. Just wanted to reach out. And while my boyfriend's back was such a fantastic episode, I did want to say Jason was seemingly confounded that zombies would be eating flesh and not brains.

8:31But actually, George Romero's Night of the Living Dead from the 60s, which kind of establishes the Americanized version of zombies, they were flesh eaters. They were not after brains. I don't think until Return of the Living Dead kind of established that trope. So thank you for all the entertainment. Keep going. We love you. Bye. Okay. That's what I like to hear, Mike. Bringing in some hard zombie facts. Huh. I like flesh more. I think flesh is better than brains. Who wants to disagree with me? I don't know. Brain seems like, I don't know. It seems trite. It seems silly. Flesh? Let them eat flesh.

9:21That's what Marie Antoinette said, right? Let them eat flesh? I'm not sure. Anyway, let's go to the phones now to hear from Mary Kate. Hi, Paul. I had to pause the most current episode, My Boyfriend's Back, because just like it unlocked a childhood memory for you, it unlocked one for me. This movie came out when I was in first grade, and it's problematic that I watched it through a seven-year-old lens. However, I discovered that this is where my irrational fear of zombies and my reoccurring nightmares of zombies originated from. So I really appreciate this episode and uncovering this traumatic nightmare experience for myself as a seven-year-old.

10:07Thank you. Bye. Mary-Kate, of course, that is what this show is supposed to do. Unlock childhood trauma. I wrote a whole book about it. By the way, a great gift for the holidays. Now with the paperback edition, it's a stocking stuffer. I'll even sign it, but you can just get that. A bunch of extra pages. And then the website has a bunch of fun stuff. If you've read the book, I mean, you can go look at it. It just won't make as much sense because I did it myself. Anyway, thank you, Mary-Kate. And I want to apologize just for a second. about that joke I made about Marie Antoinette. All right, Mike from Orlando, what do you got?

10:43Hey, guys. Just watched My Boyfriend's Back, and it's a fun fact that Jason mentioned it felt like Buffy because the lead actor was in Buffy one year prior playing the douchey friend of Buffy's boyfriend, which is a mouthful. Anyway, thought that was fun. Please come to Orlando, and you brace yourself. Bye-bye. Well, Mike, let's check it out. Yep. He is also talking about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Christy Swanson version, which, you know, as true Buffy fans are known to. I mean, look, do we accept it? Yeah, we do. But that's not the one I'm talking about. Most of the time, I'm not talking about that one.

11:27It's actually better than you think. Paul Rubens is very good in that movie. Christy Swanson, too, I guess. Yeah. I mean, I haven't watched it enough to have an opinion on it, but that's not the Buffy. But I do appreciate this information. Thank you, Mike from Orlando. Let's go back to the Discord. M. No Land. M. No Land. OK. M. No Land writes, Tracy Lind accused Dodi Fayette of abuse in 1997, but dated her much earlier in the late 80s, early 90s, possibly even when my boyfriend's back was filming. In 1997, Fayyad was engaged to model and aspiring actress Kelly Fisher and basically jilted her with his father's encouragement for Princess Diana as portrayed in The Crown.

12:09In fact, Kelly Fisher held a press conference in the middle of 97 with her lawyer, Gloria Allred, where she announced that she was suing Fayyad but dropped the suit two weeks later after Dodie and Diana died. If Tracy Lynn's accusations about Doty's abuse during their relationship happened two weeks before he died, it would make sense that they possibly were related to Fisher's lawsuit. But Lynn had not been dating him for a few years at that time. You are 100 percent right, M. Noland. I just kind of took some of those facts out because it just got to be a lot of names and things we didn't know.

12:42So yes and no, you are right. I knew it. You're correcting me. You're right, too. I knew it. I just kind of held it back. But there we go. The wild and weird world of Dodi Fayed. Wow. I also liked that his dad encouraged him, you know, dump that zero and get with that hero. Del Preston writes, oh, back with another revelation. Del, here we go. The secret pause for nudity moment in Teen Wolf might exist after all. Wait a second, Del. What are you talking about? Okay, right at the end, after they won the basketball game against the Bullies team, oh, I know about this, and that is a spoiler, the camera pans out to show the whole stadium and people cheering from the bleachers, but there's one woman in the crowd wearing a red sweater and blue jeans, and her fly is undone all the way.

13:31She tries to zip it up and then cover it with a jacket, but she is also still trying to cheer with her arms in the air. So you do see blurry underwear. okay um i thought somebody's penis was out in that movie maybe i'm wrong but you know what our friends our good friends over at the confused breakfast they actually pulled this moment and you can watch it and apparently the extra said that her pants are so tight that she unzipped them so there you go she's reacting as if she didn't know she was gonna have to get up even though it's a scripted film it's like the team was gonna win anyway i'm not gonna get too caught up in that extra story.

14:08But you know what? Anytime to see underwear as a child is a good time. Radek writes, not a correction or omission, but I have a big theory on Brian Orlando's nudity remote. He totally walked in on his dad watching a porn, right? And as the dad tried to think fast of being caught, he was like, oh, yeah, that's actually normal TV. But the special remote I had in my hand makes these women naked and I must have activated it by mistake. Whoa, Radek, Radek, what did you do? You just broke my whole brain open. That's a crazy, that's a crazy, wow. Wow. I love that idea. I love that idea. And you know what, by the way, Orlando's Electronics, that shirt, that sticker, everything about it is available now on our How Did This Get Made store.

14:53Just go to hdtgm.com and get yourself an Orlando's Electronics shirt. But wow, you know what honestly radic i haven't had my breath taken away like this in a very very long time and i think uh without any further ado i must say radic you are this week's correction and omission winner embrace yourself yeah you brace yourself for this amazing song from our friends the action jackson five

15:36All right. If you want to chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up our Discord or call us at 619-P-A-U-L-A-S-K. Coming up after the break, Jason will stop by for Just Chat. And if you want even more of me and Jason this week, well, guess what? We're on blank check, baby. That's right. Jason and I are on blank check for three hours and 45 minutes talking about the Ballad of Buster Scruggs. And if you're still not full of me and Jason, well, guess what? I'm on Conan Needs a Friend this week. I return, had a great time with Conan. He is the absolute best. All right. So you got a lot of Paul and Jason and Conan listening.

16:15coming up, but get ready because after the break we're going to add even more to the pile. But first, take a listen to this bonus deleted scene from my boyfriend's back as we talk about 90s movies and Laserdiscs. It's also like, this movie had none of what I consider to be the 90s hallmarks. You know, it feels like it's an 80s movie because it's playing in that sandbox. Yeah. 94? A year later? I had it on Laserdisc, so I'm trying to think of like... What? Oh, yeah. Were you still pausing on Laserdisc and did it make it easier? Well, I was too busy flipping it. Flipping it?

16:55Middle of the movie. Remember when the player, the Laserdisc player that flipped it itself came out? Oh, I got... Yeah. Holy shit. That was a game changer. Gen X, let's go. Listen, I know I've said this before, but the first time I went to Paul's apartment in New York City, I saw, you know, a cabinet full of Laserdiscs. and I thought, all right. I'm still upset. I'm still upset you don't have those anymore. I know, me too. Welcome back. By now, I'm sure you've noticed that every week on How Did This Get Made, we re-release old episodes back into our feed, but maybe if you're a new listener, you didn't know they were old.

17:27Well, they are. These matinee episodes come out every Tuesday. This week's matinee was Diana the Musical. Oh, I mean, you see the connection. And next week's will be Valerian in a City of a Thousand Planets with Jessica St. Clair and Doug Benson. So keep on checking out all of our replays of classic episodes every Tuesday. And now, without any further ado, it is time to welcome Jason to Last Looks for a little Just Chat.

18:02Jason, big news in the world of the Geek Squad. You know what? Here we are. Emergency episode. Emergency episode. We must address that Vanity Fair has attempted to put together their version of the Geek Squad. They're trying to codify the Geek Squad. And you know what? Nice try, print journalism. You didn't do it. We were there before you. And I think we have some major issues. Yeah. Now, if you are not familiar with what's going on in the Vanity Fair world, well, let me tell you, this week they released their Hollywood edition of Vanity Fair. Which I will say I always love. It's been my favorite issue since I had a Vanity Fair subscription when I was a teenager.

18:51A hundred percent. I love it. Oftentimes it's like your favorite actors all in these great tableaus. Yeah. And it's yeah, it's great. Great interviews are in there. I love it. We love Vanity Fair, but they did select their own geek squad this year. They did a little bit differently. Three covers with three different sets of men on them. I'm so sorry, Paul. Paul. Yes. I'm so sorry, Paul. Yes. Shut your mouth. Wait a second. Okay. Yes. They are not men. As these covers tell us, these are the boys. Oh, you're right. The boys. And that is quintessential for Geek Squad. These are boys. These are the boys.

19:34These are not our men. These are our boys. These are our boys. And let me tell you, they have the ages of men. because I will quickly give you the cover selection right now. Cover one, Jeremy Allen White, 34. The Bear. Aesop Rocky, 37. Oh, wow. I didn't realize Rocky was that old. Yeah. Yeah. Glenn Powell, 37. Oh, my God. Lakeith Stanfield, 34. Callum Turner, 35. Cover two, Riz Ahmed, 42. Wow, wow, wow. Jonathan Bailey, People Magazine's hottest man of 2025. Paul, I'm so sorry. I have to stop you. I think you mean sexiest man. You're right. You're right. Again, this is why I need. And if these magazines collaborated, it would be sexiest boy.

20:24And we'd all be on the Epstein list. Jonathan Bailey, 37. Harris Dickinson, 29. Now we're going to get back to him in a second. Andrew Garfield, 42. And then we go to cover three, which is Paul Muscal, 29. Great. Michael B. Jordan, 38. And Austin Butler, 34. Okay. So some of our guys are in here. Some of our guys are in here. Now, there's been a lot of debate. I mean, a lot of debate. Because I think that we've knocked off a couple of these guys. We knocked off Glenn Powell. They're so interesting, too. Well, some of these guys are just too old. They're too old. I think, and or just have had two, like, Michael B.

21:03Jordan's been acting since he was a kid. Friday Night Lights, The Wire. Get him off. Get him out of there. No way. Absolutely not. AG, get Garfield out of there. I don't want any old Spider-Man in my geek squad. You can't have, I mean, Riz Ahmed, great actor. Don't view him as, first of all, don't view him as a boy. No. And don't view him as part of the geek squad. No, get him out of there. Geek squad is for, I will say geek squad is for the boys. I mean, a hundred percent. You know, like the bear geek squad, Mezcal geek squad, Harris Dickinson geek squad. I mean, these are geek squads. And now here's the other thing.

21:41I will say that, you know, look, a lot of people have taken a lot of, you know, issue with the fact that there's only boys, no boys and girls. This is embarrassing. This is embarrassing for Vanity Fair. This is just in a, what is this? Is this an attempt to speak to the male loneliness epidemic? To be like, hey, look at the boys. Boys can hang out together. these boys i mean they couldn't even get all the boys in one location together they couldn't even get all the boys on one under one umbrella paul yes i mean there's some of these guys if it rains some of these guys are getting wet i mean this is the thing these boys are hard to pin down now i will just remind our audience that our boys are boys that we wanted to hear it for timmy chalamet why is he not on the list i'm surprised timmy's not on this but by the way if he turned it down, solid move.

22:36I believe he did. By the way, did you see this thing that him and Adam Sandler did? It's my favorite. All right. So, you know, when the award seasons come, every studio kind of figures out different ways to promote their film. So a majority of these things are screenings, right? But there's also a lot of press that goes on. Like you'll see that Adam Sandler is doing a sit down with David Letterman. Now, part of that is because, yes, Letterman wants to interview him, but also part of that is it is press for Jay Kelly, the movie that is going to be nominated for oscars now what i saw this past weekend it blew my mind timothy chalamet and adam sandler played two-on-two basketball in a gymnasium with fans as part of their academy award promotion they did like a 30-minute interview with each other they interviewed each other and then they played that was first they had two chairs facing each other okay they had two chairs facing each other on a basketball court they pulled those chairs away and then they just pull people up from the audience and played two on two basketball by the way i love i love it i think that's awesome i only wish i only wish that the interview had taken place during the game so they while they're playing they're complimenting each other you know i mean yeah get it that would have been very funny oh i'll watch that that's cool oh it's really made me laugh because i'm like i sent it to a friend and they were like this is clearly an example of like two actors going we got this let us go and it's great it's actually more organic and more interesting than anything else I've seen.

24:01So Timmy Chalamet, Austin Butler on our list, Nicholas Holt, Jeremy Allen White. I don't think Nick Holt is Geek Squad. I don't. We kicked him off. I believe we did. Oh, okay. I'm just saying, but these were like, these is like what we were talking about. These are the people we just discussed. Yes. These are the people we discussed again, because I don't think we ever really fully honed in. We had moments, right? Jeremy Allen White, we kicked him off, but then we brought him back, but then we kicked him off again. I don't know. I mean, And Jeremy Ellen White, I think I would put in Geek Squad.

24:31You would. You know, I think he's at the very least pledging Geek Squad. I don't know. All right. All right. So this is interesting. This is interesting. Now, we had Jacob Elordi not on the Vanity Fair covers in a big giant movie. Oh, yeah. Why is he not on the thing? It's interesting. He's not in there. Yeah. I would think maybe he's too tall for everybody. Maybe he would. Because all these guys, I think, are like under 5 '6". Okay. And he's like 6 '7 or something. He's like James Comey height. He's like Greg Davis height. Do you think that people have turned it down? Because maybe they didn't want to be one of the boys.

25:09Well, I do believe one of the things they, you know, like, yes, I think absolutely. I think some people turn it down because I want to be the only person on the cover of a magazine. Or I think publicists probably suggest that type of stuff. In that same way that people are told to turn down sexiest man alive. Right. Serious actors. Like, you know, not that, forgive me, not that, what's his name? Jonathan Bailey is not a serious actor. I worked with Jonathan as, you know, I worked with him as a director. I'm going to tell him. I'm going to tell him. I don't mean that in any kind of slight, but just that it is.

25:47No, I hear what you're saying. Yes. But, you know, that it is something that people are told by publicists. So don't solicit that kind of attention. You're in these kind of movies. Right, exactly. Like Timmy Chalamet would probably say no to Sexiest Man. Well, what did Leonardo DiCaprio say to him? Leonardo DiCaprio's advice to, it's famous, to Timothee Chalamet. There's no hard drugs, no superhero movies, no sequels. Or there's a third one. It's not no sequels. But I can't remember. There's a third pillar to that, which I think was very smart. So I'm looking at these Vanity Fair covers. And I'm like, all right, this is something where, you know, I feel like they missed the mark.

26:26I feel like they missed the mark. I feel like our mark was a little bit better because we did include people. Where's Barry Keoghan? You know? Yeah. Why not? Why is he not here? Or maybe he's like the Geek Squad character actor. You know? I like him quite a bit. I do too. Now, I will say this. You weren't on this episode, but our intern, Quinn, who is the youngest person on our entire staff, was able to put together her Geek Squad list. She had a little, she had some hot takes and we're going to bring her in a second. Great, great, great, great. So she said, put Jeremy Allen White back in the Geek Squad.

27:03I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. She also put Zendaya back in. We kicked Zendaya out. Okay, so I have a, well, when we talked to Quinn, I do have a question about, my question is, should Geek Squad, Like, what is the overlap for for Geek Squad and like being on a Disney show or one of those kid shows, you know? And I guess that's for Jeremy Allen White, too, because he was like a kid on Shameless. So I just saw him, too, being a very kid on an episode of Law and Order from a million years ago. And he looks like he's about 15 years old. It's wild. Well, let's I just want to give the rest of Quinn's takes because let's go.

27:46She said she'd kick out Austin Butler. Whoa. She'd kick out Jacob Elordi. What? She'd kick out Margaret Qualley. Okay. She'd kick out Sidney Sweeney. Oh, wow. And her new pitch is Rachel Sennett. Okay. Ayo on the list. Rachel Zegler on the list. Okay. Barry Keoghan. Okay. There it is. I don't know. Lady, and I thought this said Lady Gaga. That's so funny. from this distance, it says Lucas Gage, and I read it as Lady Gaga, and I was about to be like, Quinn, what are you talking about? Well, she's going to have to defend all this and the Vanity Fair covers. Now, here's, she did say Lucas Gage, and she replaced Nicholas Holt, which we both agreed should not be in Geek Squad, with Harris Dickinson, who is on the Vanity Fair cover.