Do Do Do Do Do Do Do, Do Do Do Do Do Do Do, Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Dooooooooo. Beverly Hills Cop, from 1984 and starring Eddie Murphy, became an 80s phemonenon and continued the comedian skyrocket to total domination. Part action, part comedy, part buddy cop film and throw in a fish out of water theme - and you have a really fun romp where it's impossible not to laugh at the stuff that Axel Foley gets into, nevermind all the voices and characters he pulls out of his Detroit cop butt. We have actually never seen this movie and are sort of mad we never seemed to stumbled onto it on TV or anything in our 36 and 40 years of life because it's damn funny! We talk about Eddie Murphy's laugh, ponder about what really happens if you put a banana in someone's exhaust pipe, and cry about how there is legit one woman in this movie. What gives?!
If you grew up in the 1990s and had the Disney Channel you most definitely caught one of the better Disney original movies - Not Quite Human, which spawned two sequels (ooo a trilogy!) - and made us really invested in the life of Chip, the Android! Played by Jay Underwood, known to us only as Bug from Uncle Buck and also starring Alan Thicke (RIP best dad ever) and Robin Lively (Teen Witch - top that!), Not Quite Human is all about androids and is basically the 1980s meets the story of Pinocchio. Jonas Carson creates a life like teenage boy android and wants to see if with continued exposure to human kind, a robot can become more human. So he sends Chip off to school, has him interact with kids his own age, and tries to teach him the wild ride that is the English language. So many expressions and euphemisms we have! Meanwhile, some crazy businessman is trying to steal Chip to sell his android technology to defense contractors. But really this movie is all about literal comedy and what happens when an android gets dropped into the teenage years - with bullies, girls, and barf burgers to contend with. We talk about AI and how the 80s thought they were so close to having it with all that busted technology, how Jay Underwood deserves a B list Oscar for this performance, and talk a bit about the sequels where Chip goes to college and Dr. Carson gets an android of himself!
Do you ever wonder, what could happen under, under an umbrella tree? Under the Umbrella Tree, the adorable people + puppets Canadian show that ran on Disney from 1990 - 1997 was a must watch in our household! We loved watching the roommate hijinks of Gloria Gopher, Iggy Iguana, Jacob Bluejay and Holly! We thought it would be fun to re-watch a couple episodes (most available on YouTube) and see if it still brought us cozy kid vibes. This show is so sweet and we're always here for those people and anthropomorphic animals romps but we had some questions! What's going on with Holly's wardrobe? How old are the animal roommates supposed to be? And why would Holly put up with roommates who don't pay rent, cook, clean orrrrr do anything but invite their chickadee friends over for lunch!?!!