Large Marge Sent Us
335 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 109 ratingsHere on the Large Marge Sent Us podcast, Sweety and Sweetie are our names and nostalgia is our game! Once a week (or more if you're lucky!) we watch movies from the 80s and 90s that shaped our childhoods and then have a sisterly chat about them. We usually sing songs and there's about a 100% chance we'll crack up with bouts of laughter. We hope you will too! So come join us and step back into a time when life was good and the movies were even better
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280. Son in Law
November 24, 2021 03:14 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBWho knew that Son in Law qualifies as a Thanksgiving movie!? From 1993 and starring 90s cultural icon Pauly Shore, Son in Law is a fish out of water/outsider fixes everyone's problems kind of movie that we are here for! Sure, Pauly Shore's effeminate, hippy/surfer/LA ladies man/gay best friend schtick can be a bit much sometimes, we grew to love Crawl and all his wacky mannerisms. We'll chat about LA in the 90s, mud wrestling, and how Brad from Teen Witch is in this but plays an evil dude. ...
279. Mars Attacks!
November 08, 2021 22:20 - 45 minutes - 35.3 MBThis week we watched Tim Burton's alien invasion spoof from 1996, Mars Attacks! Starring literally everyone in Hollywood! In the mid 90s, it was all about aliens and Burton capitalized on the trend by creating this kooky film which pokes fun at some of the campier alien invasion films from the 50s and 60s. Basically martians come to Earth and the dumb dumb leaders are confused about their intentions. We weren't! Anyone with any sense could tell those suckers were trouble, just from their gi...
278. Halloween
October 29, 2021 18:33 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBAs our favorite warlock says ... anything can happen on Halloween! And for Laurie Strode, that includes having the worst night of babysitting of your life! John Carpenter's spooky classic rounds out our scary movies for the month of October! Like Freddy Krueger, 80s and 90s kid couldn't escape the visual image of the pale Michael Myers mask nor the 8000 sequels the 1978 original spawned. The original Halloween is still creepy AF and we're here to talk about it! We'll talk about horror movie...
277. A Nightmare on Elm Street
October 21, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MBOur second spooky movie for October is A Nightmare on Elm Street, which brought scary AF Freddy Krueger to life, but only in our dreams, right? Wrong! This is about as classic as horror movies get - creepy scary villain, loads of blood, a plucky heroine, and ... Johnny Depp! This Wes Craven classic predates the birth of the Sweeties by a couple of years, but it definitely shaped our and everyone's childhood in the sense that no one could look at a red and green striped sweater the same again...
276. Child's Play
October 15, 2021 19:46 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBHappy Halloween Sweeties! We're gearing up for one of our favorite months by watching some 80s classics that used to scare the poop out of us when we were little. First off, the 1988 killer doll classic--Child's Play! Even though Chucky swearing was mostly funny, this movie still put us off dolls for a looong time. And while we have some qualms about Karen Barclay's decision to buy a toy for her son from a 'peddler' (aka a homeless crackhead in the alley), she's still a badmass mom and we lo...
275. Jurassic Park REDUX
October 05, 2021 12:21 - 54 minutes - 42.3 MBHappy 5th Anniversary to us! That's right ... LMSU has been around for 5 years now and with 275+ episodes, we cannot frickin' believe it! Back in 2016, we were just two sisters with a dream talking about Jurassic Park, so we only thought it would be fitting to celebrate our 5 year with a re-watch and re-record of the dino blockbuster. Will we talk about the same things we did 5 years ago or will 5 years of wisdom and maturity bring us new insight? Come and find out! As the great Samuel L. J...
274. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
September 17, 2021 18:04 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MB1993 brought us What's Eating Gilbert Grape, a tale of a lonely 20 something mid Westerner (Johnny Depp) living in a go nowhere town with a lot of weight on his shoulders; taking care of his mentally disabled teenage brother Arnie, his recluse mother who hasn't left the house in seven years, an on going affair with the local unhappy married mother of two, trying to woo the new, cool girl that comes to town via RV, and a really poor hair color choice! Seriously what was with that hair color?...
273. Loverboy
September 10, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 34.8 MB1989's Loverboy is another vehicle for 80s era Patrick Dempsey, who is gangly AF as Randy, a 20 year old college student desperate to earn money for his college tuition once his dad shuts down the money train after his grades tank. Randy gets a job at Senor Pizza delivering pizzas and eventually orgasms once he stumbles upon the idea of selling his body and time to the lonely married women of the LA area desperate for companionship since all their husbands are big time losers. Believe it o...
272. St. Elmo's Fire
September 02, 2021 02:19 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBWhat a zany ride St. Elmo's Fire is! Written and directed by Joel Schumacher, 1985's St. Elmo's Fire features several actors of "Brat Pack" fame and delves into the topic of what happens to friends after college when you can still drink like a fish but uh oh, have to hold down a steady job and start to contemplate the meaning of life?! This movie is ridiculous in the best way possible - the characters are all terrible people, there's tons of cocaine, talk of "Arabs", and one friend's big dre...
271. The Outsiders
August 27, 2021 16:51 - 1 hour - 60.7 MB1983's The Outsiders is Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of the young adult classic by S.E. Hinton and despite an ensemble cast of 80s heartthrobs, The Sweeties had never seen it! Starring nearly every famous movie star guy 20 and under (okay sorry Pat Swayze was 29, old fogie!), The Outsiders delves into the white class divide in 1950s Oklahoma and what's it's like to have to grow up too fast because you're poor AND if you're Dad thought it would be fun to name you Ponyboy. Tough brea...
270. Freaky Friday (2003 version)
August 18, 2021 17:25 - 46 minutes - 36.1 MBSo we're back from our "maternity leave", Sweetie Jr. is here and we're ready to switch over to mother-daughter movies! Jk - but we did cover Freaky Friday, the 2003 version with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan! We were quite enamored with this movie when it came out - LL was all the rage, the soundtrack was full of bangers, and we had a crush on Chad Michael Murray. Actually, no thanks to those greasy, parted in the center locks thank you very much! We'll talk about our history covering ...
269. Three Men and a Baby
July 06, 2021 15:13 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MBOur final movie for Baby Month is Three Men and a Baby, a gem from 1987 directed by none other than Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy! We've always been a fan of the sequel to this movie - Three Men and a Little Lady, but the original is awfully cute and features three great lead actors (Selleck! Guttenberg! Danson!), a cute baby, and a some what nonsense drug side plot that seems to be pretty integral to 80s movies, let's be real. We'll talk about a major movie urban legend with this one about a...
268. Junior
June 25, 2021 20:17 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBGuys, what IS this movie and why does it exist? From 1994 and directed by Ivan Reitman, Junior stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Emma Thompson and involves men having babies, some really terrible stereotyping of women and pregnant women and Aerosmith being used as a red herring? Yeah, it's weird guys! We think these movies are made as some sort of bone thrown to women - hey look guys CAN understand what you're going through ... isn't that wonderful? But really it just makes us l...
267. Nine Months
June 17, 2021 19:28 - 51 minutes - 38.4 MBBaby Month continues here on LMSU and as Sweetie is now nine months pregnant, we thought it fitting to watch Nine Months! From 1995 and starring Hugh Grant in his first Hollywood featured film AND directed and written by Chris Columbus of Adventures in Babysitting and Home Alone fame, Nine Months tackles the question men often ask themselves ... am I ready for a baby to uproot my totally awesome, non children life? What luxury to be able to ask yourself that AFTER you knock up your girlfrien...
256. Father of the Bride Part II
June 11, 2021 14:58 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBJune is officially Baby Month here at Large Marge Sent Us as we prepare to welcome Sweetie Jr. into the club oh so soon! So to start off we watched Father of the Bride Part II, probably one of our favorite baby centric movies and really a near perfect sequel. All the favs from the original come back, Annie is married and pregnant and surprise, Nina, mother of the bride is too! This is A LOT for poor George Banks to handle as he oscillates between guy going through a mid life crisis because h...
255. Thelma and Louise
May 28, 2021 14:57 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBThis year marks the 30th anniversary of Thelma and Louise, the Ridley Scott directed movie about two women who have HAD ENOUGH! Amen sisters! Fuck that patriarchy! 30 years later, we're still a bit light on the female centric action films for our taste, but let's toast these bad ass bitches for proving that women can lead at the box office! Starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon as besties on the run after they shoot a would be rapist, who lets be honest totally deserved it. Diiiiiick. We'...
254. The Truman Show
May 21, 2021 16:00 - 54 minutes - 40.4 MBIn 1998 The Truman Show was released as perhaps a cautionary tale about the dangers of reality TV! Did we listen? No! As now, nearly half of TV programming these days seems to be reality shows. We are obsessed! Jim Carrey stars as oblivious Truman, born into a reality show and watched 24-7 by the world unbeknownst to him until literally the sky falls one day - or stage lights - and he begins to question what is his reality? We saw this movie in the theaters as we were want to do with anythi...
253. Her Alibi
May 14, 2021 22:02 - 53 minutes - 41.1 MBTime for another late 80s rom com! Her Alibi stars the man with the best mustache EVER, Tom Selleck and Paulina Poriskova a hot model turned actress with REALLY long hair. We'll blame Carol and our older sister Liz for getting us into this movie - probably forever swayed by Tom Selleck's looks - and we remember loving it as a kid, but man this movie is kind of thin! Selleck is crime writer Phillip Blackwood, whose talents are suspect and when he gets writer's block, he decides to be the ali...
252. Ewok Adventure: Caravan of Courage AKA Ewok Village
April 29, 2021 15:50 - 55 minutes - 51 MBLike many kids of the 80s, after seeing the Ewoks make their appearance in Return of the Jedi, we couldn't get enough of them! Luckily there were the made for TV movies that came out all about Ewoks starting in 1984, with Ewok Adventure: Caravan of Courage and we were hooked! It's been a good 30 years since we've seen this movie, and wow what a nostalgic gem. Sure, Mace is an annoying loser and they maybe didn't get into some major plot points as much as they could have, but holy shit was th...
251. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
April 16, 2021 13:49 - 45 minutes - 33.9 MBWe finally caved to Sweeti Jimi's wishes and watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, one of his favorite movies but one the Sweeties have never seen! I think we can all do a pretty good gnarly dude, Bill and Ted impression, but who knew this movie was about time travel and the importance of a world history survey class! We were pleasantly surprised how cute this movie was, though pretty absurd. We'll talk about how we continue to fall more in love with Keanu every day, what historical f...
250. I Know What You Did Last Summer
April 10, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBPart of the popular late 90s teen horror series, I Know What You Did Last Summer from 1997 features all the hot stars from the time (coincidently most with three names? Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prince Jr.) and a script by Scream and Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson. While inferior to the much beloved Scream, IKWYDLS has some solid gore and a couple of good jump scares that still make it pretty worthwhile. We'll talk revenge/vendetta horror films and why t...
249. Swiss Family Robinson
April 02, 2021 15:55 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBDisney's Swiss Family Robinson from 1960 is a classic desert island tale about a Swiss family escaping the tyranny of Napoleon Bonaparte's ever growing empire and filled with evil pirates, dangerous jungle animals and many different varieties of hats woven from banana leaves! Sweeties was OBSESSED with this movie when she was little and nearly wore the bootleg VHS version we had as kids. Nowadays, the movie comes with (what is becoming an often seen modifier from Disney+) warnings about cult...
248. A Goofy Movie
March 26, 2021 18:02 - 44 minutes - 33.8 MBWe've gotten a lot of requests over the years to watch 1995's A Goofy Movie, and we finally took the plunge! A spin off of the popular animated tv show, Goof Troop, A Goofy Movie follows the lives of single dad Goofy Goof (?) and his 14 year old son Max as they navigate the tricky waters of adolescence! It's a sweet movie with a sound track full of bangers straight out of the mid 90s, Bobby Brownish pop era. We'll talk about our confusion with this world in which people are dogs, but kind of...
247. Follow that Bird
March 19, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 41.2 MB1985 brought us Sesame Street's first foray into the movie scene with Follow that Bird, a cautionary tale about the dangers of segregation and why the diversity always practiced on Sesame Street is the only way to go! Starring Big Bird and the love-able cast of muppets from Sesame Street, their human friends, and then some random movie stars like Chevy Chase and John Candy thrown in there! Sweetie used to watch this at her friend's house when she was six year olds and the mean bird lady Miss...
246. Lady and the Tramp
March 12, 2021 18:37 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBHe's a tramp, he's a scoundrel. He's a rounder, he's a cad. He's a tramp but I looooove him, and even I have got it pretty bad. Tonight we watched Disney's Lady and the Tramp from 1955! An oldie but goodie that's all about class differences in the dog world + how life really is better if you have owners to feed and house you. Sure, the racist portrayal of the Siamese Cats really needs to go, but in general this movie still holds pretty strong as a foundational dog movie from our childhood. ...
245. Mystic Pizza
March 04, 2021 17:30 - 49 minutes - 38 MBFrom 1988, Mystic Pizza is the coming of age story about three women growing up in a small Connecticut town with your typical young adult problems. Okay, so yes most of them are about boys, boys, boys, but it's the PIZZA and Julia Robert's fiery personality that is the star of this movie for us. And while this is the first time the Sweeties have seen this movie all the way through, we loved it! A great story about the importance of girlfriends and trying to find your place in the world and...
244. Brandy Cinderella
February 25, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBThis month the 1997 version of Rodger and Hammerstein's Cinderella starring Brandy and Whitney Houston finally made it's way to Disney+ and we've never been happier! This was the EVENT of the late 90s, as us young girls were so happy to watch an updated version of this classic musical starring a pop star and George from Seinfeld! But truth be told - this music is rad, with loud, tacky storybook level costumes, a cute prince, and lots of great diversity casting. We love all the songs and had ...
243. When Harry Met Sally
February 18, 2021 15:35 - 57 minutes - 43.9 MBHappy belated Valentine's Day from The Sweeties! We're going late 80s rom com this week with When Harry Met Sally, the 1989 Rob Reiner directed, Nora Ephron written gem of a film. Starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as a couple who start out as enemies, then move to friends and then finally lovers as they realize men and women can be friends, but sometimes that friendship can blossom into romance. A very New York City film that captures some fun hair styles through the decades, lots of chu...
243. Bonus Episode: Saved By the Bell
February 08, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBWith the passing this week of Samuel "Screech Powers", aka Dustin Diamond, we thought we'd pay tribute and do a bonus episode on probably our favorite show from the 90s, Saved by the Bell. Running from 1989 to 1992, but with many specials, spin offs, etc., the Saved by the Bell gang was in our lives for a majority of the 90s and we loved it! Following the hijinks of Zack Morris and the kids at Bayside High was a blast - and we're proud to have it as such an important part of our childhood. ...
242. Nothing But Trouble
February 05, 2021 20:04 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBFrom 1991, Nothing but Trouble is a Dan Ackroyd written, directed and starred in movie that is nothing but a big old creepy mess! Winner of several Razzies and probably one of Roger Ebert's worst reviews, the movie stars Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, and John Candy and features yuppies getting pulled over in a podunk town on their way to Atlantic City, only to be taken to the local justice of the peace to be arraigned for their crimes. Chaos ensues because the justice of the peace is some weird d...
241. An American Tail
January 29, 2021 16:16 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MB1986's American Tail is one of the few non-Disney cartoons that we remember from childhood, though one we weren't totally game to watch often since it's A. kind of scary B. kind of sad! Starring the voice talents of Dom Deluise, Christopher Plummer and Madeline Kahn, American Tail is an immigrant story about a little Russian Jewish mouse who immigrates to the US but gets separated from his parents when he gets swept out to sea on the way there. Luckily they all make it to New York, but they ...
240. Matilda
January 15, 2021 20:31 - 1 hour - 46.4 MB1996's Matilda is a pretty great adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's book that the Sweeties held near and dear to their hearts, the little bookworms that they were. Starring Mara Wilson, the IT cute girl of the mid 90s, Danny DeVito (+ he directed it and provides the narration, yo give someone else a job Danny!), Rhea Pearlman, and Embeth Daviditz as Miss Honey, the best teacher you never had. This movie does a great job combining the whimsical, grossness of most Roald Dahl stories but ...
239. She's Having a Baby
January 08, 2021 15:05 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBHappy New Year! Our big announcement this week is Sweetie is pregnant and we'll be welcoming Sweetie Jr. to the podcast in early July! In celebration, we watched She's Having a Baby, a not often thought of John Hughes film that should be called He's Having a Breakdown, because Kevin Bacon's Jefferson "Jake" Briggs is having a mid life crisis ... and he's just 25! This movie was weird guys, and really wasn't about babies at all! It was about a not great marriage with not great people and many...
238. Die Hard
December 16, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBThis week we're covering one of the few Christmas movies that can also be filed under the action movie genre with 1998's Die Hard. Bruce Willis plays John McClane, a cop from New York City who finds himself bound for California on Xmas Eve to visit his estranged wife, meeting her at her office Christmas party. Unfortunately some German terrorists show up, eager to break into the company safe and steal $600 million dollars. Unbeknownst to the terrorists, McClane is a bad ass and not the perso...
237. Meet Me In St. Louis
December 11, 2020 18:27 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBWe did a Christmas adjacent movie this week guys! Meet Me in St. Louis from 1944 is responsible for that little melancholy diddy, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", but there's so much more to it! Following The Smith family for a year in early turn of the century St. Louis, this movie takes place across all four seasons and one Sweetie loved to bits when she was little. From the costumes to the quaint songs, Judy Garland's glamour and just the general vibe of director Vincent Minnell...
236. Jingle All The Way
December 03, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBHooray it's December, time for holiday movies! From 1996, Jingle All the Way finds Arnold Schwarzenegger as "bad dad" Howard Langston, a workaholic mattress salesman who drops the Christmas ball, if you will, by forgetting to get his son Jamie the coveted Christmas toy of the season - Turbo Man. Christmas chaos ensues as Howard spends Christmas Eve on the hunt for the elusive toy, and will do whatever it takes to fulfill his son's Christmas wish! Also starring Rita Wilson, Phil Hartman, Jake...
235. Funny Farm
November 25, 2020 22:55 - 1 hour - 58 MBHappy Thanksgiving week guys! While not a "Thanksgiving movie", Funny Farm was our choice to get you through this turkey and stuffing eating, Black Friday shopping, Zooming with everyone you know week! From 1988, Chevy Chase plays a slightly smarter, albeit possibly even more narcissistic version of Clark Griswold in the sports writer turned wannabe action adventure author Andy Farmer. When Andy and his wife Elizabeth leave their New York City life for the country dreams of Vermont, they get...
234. Peter Pan
November 18, 2020 15:26 - 56 minutes - 42.9 MBFrom 1953, Disney's Peter Pan is an older cartoon that we grew to love fondly as children. The boy who would never grow up, Captain Hook and cute little Tinkerbelle were certainly a big part of our childhood. However viewing this movie now, as mid 30s women, we're somewhat troubled by its misogynistic overtones and racist portrayal of Native Americans! Nearly 70 years later, Disney has realized that the movie is pretty racist in its depiction of Native Americans, and has a nice little disc...
233. Dave
November 11, 2020 16:39 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBWelp, we made it through the election relatively unscathed and certainly happier than the 2016 election! So we thought it was apropos to do a political comedy and we picked Dave! From 1993, directed by Ivan Reitman (of Ghostbusters fame) and starring Kevin Kline as presidential look-a-like Dave Kovic. Dave impersonates the president and then finds himself the actual president after real President Bill Mitchell has a heart attack and falls into a coma after an aggressive boning sesh with his...
232. My Boyfriend's Back
October 26, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBMy Boyfriend's Back is a black comedy from 1993, which believe it or not, is a commentary about social discrimination but all importantly doesn't take itself that seriously! Johnny Dingle finds himself dead after saving his childhood crush, Missy, from a robber's bullet. Lucky for him, he's able to rise from the dead and come back to life as a zombie to take Missy to the prom, but not without some unfortunate consequences like rotting flesh, his ear falling off, and townspeople trying to bur...
231. Elvira Mistress of the Dark
October 23, 2020 13:44 - 47 minutes - 36.2 MBOur spooky journey this month continues with Elvira Mistress of the Dark! A film Sweetie thought was utterly scandalous when she'd secretly watch it in our basement as a plucky eight year old, Elvira is a campy, horror goth B movie classic that introduced the world to one fiesty, big boobed witch full of tons of chupatz and an unending supply of sexual innuendos! We really feel Elvira is ahead of her time and is a feminist icon we can all get behind - she's not afraid of who she is and doesn...
230. Psycho
October 15, 2020 14:13 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBThis week is Sweety's Birthday week! Happy 34th Sweety! We did one of her favorite movies for this week's spooky pic - Psycho! From 1960, we saw this Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece for the first time on one of our family vacations to Universal Studios, Florida. We had seen the Alfred Hitchcock experience and a live reenactment of the infamous shower scene, and then Dad proceeded to show us the film immediately after. We were wow'd by this classic horror movie and it really sunk it's claws into...
229. Ernest Scared Stupid
October 08, 2020 15:22 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBWell kids, it's already October, so you know what that means ... spooky flicks! This week we're watching Ernest Scared Stupid, a favorite of newly inducted member of the Sweetie Cub, Sweeti Jimi! So the Sweeties aren't super well versed in the Ernest universe, nor do we love that sort of idiot comedy, but this Halloween iteration of the Ernest franchise is hella scary with scary trolls, kids being turned into wooden dolls, and possibly the best/worst Halloween costume for an adult we've ever...
228. The Wedding Planner
September 26, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBToday's the day! Sweetie and Sweeti Jimi are getting married! To mark the occasion, Sweety and Sweetie (man there's a lot of Sweeties!) decided to watch a J. Lo classic. The Wedding Planner from 2001 marks a staple in the Wedding Rom Com sub-genre. While the plot of the movie is bonkers and most of what happens is pretty dumb/unrealistic, we can't deny that the movie is extremely watchable and fun. Although let's be honest--Dr. Steve is trash and also pretty dumb. So come celebrate with the ...
227. Showgirls
September 21, 2020 14:21 - 55 minutes - 42.9 MBThat's right everyone, an NC-17 movie made the cut in terms of movies that have shaped our childhood! Showgirls, from 1995, starring Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon, and Kyle MacLachlan is a steaming bowl of tits soup and was the naughty, I shouldn't see it but I want to see it movie of the 90s! Elizabeth Berkley, a few years out from her Jesse Spano days, plays Nomi Malone, a rough around the edges, potentially bi-polar dancer who is trying her luck in Vegas. She gets into a showgirls type ...
226. Wish Upon a Star
September 11, 2020 15:27 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBTime for another body swap movie! Wish Upon a Star was a TV movie from 1996 that was oft played on the Disney Channel in the early 2000s and hooked Sweety for life! Two arch enemy sisters find themselves body swapped after one sister wishes on a shooting star one night that she'd rather be her hot sister, than her brainy science fair loving self. Chaos ensues, but also a deep dive into sibling relationships, the role of confidence in making someone hot/popular, and the popularity of frosty ...
225. Cocoon
September 06, 2020 01:56 - 56 minutes - 44.3 MBWe did it! We finally watched Cocoon! It's been a labor of love to try to cover this movie (as you can't stream it anywhere and the only copies available to buy are either $200 or come from a foreign land), but we did it for you guys by buying a copy from the UK and then a DVD that would play it! You're welcome! From 1985 and directed by Ron Howard, Cocoon follows a trio of old timers living in a retirement community who stumble upon on some alien cocoons being housed in a pool they love to ...
224. Back to the Future Part III
August 21, 2020 15:40 - 56 minutes - 44.4 MBWelp, we finally did it! We watched Back to the Future Part III, third installment in a trilogy that we are OBSESSED with but never got around to seeing the movie that closed it all out! From 1990, Back to the Future III picks up where the second movie leaves off, Marty McFly is stuck in 1955 again and Doc Brown is stuck in 1855. Time travel hijinks ensues and you have Marty chasing Doc back to the Wild Wild West as they try to figure out how to get back to 1985, while avoiding the descenden...
223. Salute Your Shorts
August 11, 2020 18:09 - 40 minutes - 31.8 MBHappy Anniversary to The Sweeties! This week marks our fourth anniversary here at Large Marge Sent Us, and while we had planned on doing Cocoon, the streaming gods were against us AGAIN. We had to order the DVD from Japan, so it will be here in a tick, but until then to celebrate our four year (also known as the fruit/flowers anniversary!) we did a mini ep on Salute Your Shorts! Broadcast on Nickelodeon from 1991 to '93, Salute Your Shorts was short lived (haha) but packed a big punch as far...
222. The Cable Guy
August 07, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBFrom 1996, The Cable Guy, marked Jim Carrey's departure from straight up silly, elastic faced comedy! In this Ben Stiller directed/Judd Apatow partially written comedy, things got a little darker and take it or leave it, he still delivers in this take on the stalker flick. The Sweeties love a good stalker flick and appreciate the film's commentary on the state of TV in the mid 90s, something that has somewhat departed today with the launch of "cutting the cord" culture and all those dang st...