Indomitus
"Chone manya weesh asha beecho."

Zee
"OOOOOOORRRNNNNGGGGRRRRRUUUUUNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGG..." *plop plop plop PLOP PLUNK PLUNKPLUNKPLUNKplopPLUNK plop plop pop plop PLUNK plop splatter plup plop plop plunk PLUNK.... plopplopplopplopplopplopPLOPplopplopplopplopPLOPplopplopPLUNKplopplop plop

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*PLUNK*

"Ahhhhhh...."

*PLUNK* "Ow!"

RodRocket
Hey! Where's the French bread?

YibbleGuy
The "French Bread Rule" was officially suspended for the duration of the 1970s, Rod. Particularly in this case--if you had the Toni Tennille haircut and the scary "Riding With Death sidekick" waistline, it was a Class A Misdemeanor to be caught within 10 yards of a carbohydrate.

[and natter me no natters about the release date of this movie, fellow cappers. Check out the cars in the traffic-jam screengrab. For one, you can clearly see a 1973 Dodge Dart ... and there is no record in automotive history of a 1973 Dodge Dart surviving past 1974.]

cajunmagic
(Hate to be a nitpick, Yibble, but, this is actually TWO movies. Merlin's Shop was released in the nineties, while the other film they use in this one--archive footage--was released in the 80's. As far as the car, Raimi still uses an Oldsmobile 88, which they stopped making in 1999. By the film stock, it looks like this is the 80's movie.)

YibbleGuy
[Concur on the "two movies," brother cajun. But I stand by my contention that the "rock'n'roll martian" half was actually shot in the 70s (though released later)--and fairly early in the 70s at that. Check out screengrab 216. Dodge, possibly a Dart, no later than '74, no earlier than '70, IIRC (the timespan when Chrysler had the brilliant idea to put the taillights INSIDE THE BUMPERS, apparently to make sure that even the mildest bump when parallel parking would cost you two bezels and four bulbs). Not rusted out and decrepit, so not more than a couple of years old (my dad had a '72 Dart--trust me on this). The Olds 88 looks to be early to mid-70s as well. Couple that with the "Match Game '73" color scheme of the house, etc. ....

Will eat my words on the 70s suspension of "the French bread rule," though. Immediately thought of an exception--the opening scene of The French Connection. Guess Friedkin felt he had to establish the connection that the bad guys were French, so ....]

Indomitus
(the Rock n Roll martian part could not have been shot before the late 70s. They're playing with Star Wars toys.)

jackrouters
(Not only Star Wars, but specifically an AT-AT. This pegs production no earlier than mid-1980. Also, there is an ET poster in the kid's room. "He's with Elliot." This moves it even further down to 1982.)

Zee
(Well, if I may jump in here, the AT-AT toys seen in this film are NOT the ones from The Empire Strikes Back. Rather, they were Mexican Happy Meal Toys promoting the film Santo Contra los Perros de la Robusteza del Infierno (1978). While rare, these can still be found via Ebay for under six bucks. As for the ET poster, this is actually from the Turkish film ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (1977) which, in an interesting and ironic twist, the American director Steven Speilberg ripped off for his film, American ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the only known case of an American film being ripped off from a Turkish film and not the other way around.

So in summary, I need porn.)

jackrouters
"Obi-Wan, I need you to check the boy's midichlorian count."

RodRocket
He's Art Garfunkel-ing!

TheCarolingDiva
With a bit of Nicholas Cage-ing for spice.

Cyberbeast
With just a pinch of Paul Giamatti.

RodRocket
*DING-DING-DING-DING*
We have a PUMAT!

cajunmagic
Diarrhea is like a storm raging through Art Nicolas Giamatti.

Zee
"Is that supposed to come off when I stroke it!?!?!?"

HowlingMadShad
Grandfather: Ernest Borgnine

I can just picture him in the Doctor Who comics... the first time those kids do something idiotic he'd just smack them into next week, no TARDIS required!

gleeb
He never would have thrown potatoes away, I can tell you that.