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May 8th, 1988 - Shannen Doherty and her family (mother Rosa, and not shown here father Tom and brother Sean), with Mae Hi and Shanna Reed at the Hamburger Hamlet in Encino for Brunch with the Stars on Mother’s Day.

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Today then the start of the little series The Trouble with Larry from 1993. There were only six episodes aired and hard to find completely. Never mind, the content was also not easy. Cast (all episodes): Bronson Pinchot - Larry Burton Courteney Cox - Gabriella Easden Alex McKenna - Lindsay Flatt Perry King - Boyd Flatt Shanna Reed - Sally (Easden Burton) Flatt and others Story: During his honeymoon, the irrepressible Larry Burton is dragged off into the jungle by a large-sized male baboon and is presumed dead - eaten by apes. However, defying all odds, Larry survives and, after many comic-strip-type adventures, returns home to re-establish himself as head of the household - little realising that his wife, Sally, has married the staid and conservative Boyd Flatt during the intervening ten years, and that she is now the mother of a bright and lively nine year old daughter. Larry's return home causes considerable upheaval and consternation for the family - not least being his subsequent attempts to woo a reluctant Gabriella, his former sister-in-law, who had taken a distinct dislike to him prior to his disappearance and is still definitely opposed to the idea of getting to know Larry on a more intimate basis. —David McAnally (taken from IMDB again) Episode 1 "The Homecoming" Larry returns home on a ship, after being presumed to be dead for ten years. His wife, Sally, has remarried to Boyd Flatt and has a daughter named Lindsay. She has an art gallery where her little sister Gabriella runs the business. This is where Larry shows and kisses the unexpected girl. After some explanation, Gabriella decides to take Larry home where her sister's family has a discussion about a not makable vacation because of the bank. Well, Boyd wants to take care of it and this is when Larry comes in, surprising everyone and making Boyd faint. After some introducing, Larry invites himself into his new family and stays, helping out whenever possible - only to cause more trouble. Episode 2 "Witless for the Prosecution" The Flatts have a new neighbor who works at the unappropriate hours and gets so on everyone's nerves. When Sally, Gabriella and Lindsay go over to talk with the English man named Carl, they fall for his charm. That, clearly, doesn't go well with Boyd and Larry who come up with a plan to sabotage the man's car at night. First they want to break the windows but then to let oil out. Boyd goes under it to do it, yet Larry being Larry flattens the tire with Boyd still under it. Only in the morning, they can free the man and again Larry disrupts a peaceful agreement, so it goes to the court. As Boyd waits for his lawyer who turns out to be Larry again, well, Larry can convince the judge that the neighbor is at fault here. The family is happy once again.

Episode 3 "The Vigilantes" There is some robbery in the neighborhood and Gabriella is one of the victim. The Flatts babysit a bird but well, it can't be killed. Never mind, back to the robbery, in Gabriella's home was also Lindsay's bike and it's gone now too. The parents try to soothe her girl, yet Boyd and Larry dress up as soldiers to do some street watching but it never comes to it. Gabriella decides to check on the art gallery and Larry follows, and it ends with both of them being caught. Some short time later, Larry can free himself and annoys Gabby with his behavior - until the robbers return and he can convince them to join their club. Back at home, Boyd, Sally and Gabriella are tied while Larry distracts the robbers with rubbish. It works well until he claps his hands and knocks out the fat lady. A bit later, he does so again and hurts Boyd in the bathroom. Ouch! Episode 4 "My Science Fair Lady" Lindsay has made a science project for her school and left in the fridge. Unfortunately, Gabriella and Larry while being their usual selves, the project ends up in Gabriella's mouth and stomach. She throws up while Lindsay is sad. Boyd and Sally try to help and more but Boyd points out to have won all his school projects. Later that night, Larry is also trying to help and so how Sally and Boyd find him - with his head in the microwave. Not helping. The same night, Larry and Gabriella try to get some molt from toilets (YIKES!) but even this idea ends up in some bad jokes. So, Lindsay creates a soda volcano and well, the teacher gives the medal to his son who made a map of Africa, and not later, Larry shows up as human robot. Oh boy, and embarrassing. As it turns out, the teacher helped his son and Larry turns up in the end with 'airbag underwear'. You don't wanna know, believe me.

Episode 5 "Rhinestone Cowboyd" Anniversary time for Sally and Boyd, yet Larry disrupts it in the morning by wearing a fur of a wild pig. Sally kisses him briefly by saying that life would have been different with him around. Still, Sally is annoyed that Boyd does the same every year for it and Boyd thinks it's romantic. Neither has the guts to tell the other the truth. Larry enlists Gabriella's help at the gallery, completely ignoring that she has a customer. In the evening then, Gabriella sees for herself how boring the anniversary is, so the next day they all go to a bar named "Darlene's" where Boyd appears in a silly cowboy outfit. Larry appears as two different people to give Boyd a way to shine but the owner lady beats him to it. Boyd gets punched and Sally revenges him and takes care of him. Oh, as a little gift, Larry and Lindsay have stolen a koala from the zoo which later attacks Boyd. Ouch! Episode 6 "The Angel of Death and Taxes" Boyd is doing the taxes for the family while they deal with a hot summer. Needless to say, Larry has his own fun with it. Unfortunately, Boyd has to announce that the family can't go to the Wacky World in Florida and writes the check for the IRS. Silly of him to give it to Larry who made some changes and the Flatts get a refund of 48,000 $ - which they spend on a holiday and many other stuff they always wanted. After coming home and all, Boyd gets a singing telegram which tells him that all they have in their home will be repossessed. Surely enough, Boyd faints. When he's back, he looks over the paper and realizes that Larry is at fault and so he kicks him out. Larry ends up in the gallery and try to convince Gabriella to go with him to the IRS. She does so and both appear dressed up as Boyd and Sally. Never mind, they get on the man's nerves so much and heat up his room that he has a heart attack. To his luck, the real Boyd and Sally come and save the man's life and frees them from their debts.

All episodes can be found on a Bronson Pinchot fansite if wanted. And the pictures are from a blog. The quality of it is not better. 

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my characters

* thought i’d post this list that was sitting in my drafts; not all of them because i have too many but have some (if) ocs ♡

ORIGINAL / MISC VERSES

edith blake. original, the wayhaven chronicles, the exile verse ♡ she/any (queer). november 13th. fc: laura james. 5′11/181cm. ROs: cal, adam du mortain. connections: kiara kingston (sister). 

freddie han. ear candy verse. ♡ he/him (m). february 14th. fc: christian yu. 5′9/174cm. ROs: shiloh rue, winslow montgomery. connections: ryuwon han (sister).

ryuwon han. straight red verse. ♡ she/her (f). nicknames: ryu. fc: kim do-yeon. 5′10/179cm. ROs: jude schofield. connections: freddie han (brother).

zoe beckett. original (modern gods verse), the wayhaven chronicles ♡ she/her (f). fc: misc. 6′/184cm. ROs: veera, nat sewell. connections: jada beckett-jones (cousin). tag.

A MAGE REBORN

atalanta daenys ♡ she/they (nb). specialty: spiritism + alchemy. fc: misc. 5′7/170cm. ROs: elias revelois.

ANDROMEDA SIX

ersa altalune peg’asi ♡ she/her (agender). species: kitalphan. fc: emily browning. 5′1/154cm. ROs: vexx serif.

ATTOLLO

nefta gil ♡ she/her (f). august 15th. fc: misc. 5′1/156cm. ROs: sysba, dreamwalker.

BLOOD MOON

selene king ♡ she/her (f). beta. fc: phoebe tonkin. 5′7/172cm. ROs: farroq khan.

starling baluyot ♡ she/they (nb). alpha. fc: beatrice laus. 5′3/161cm. ROs: marco.

BLOOMING PANIC

anya petrova ♡ she/they (genderfluid). username: gothitax. fc: florzoye on ig. 5′1/155cm. ROs: nakedtoaster, toastyx.

BODY COUNT

kim ngo ♡ they/them (nb). fc: naomi roestel. 5′10/178cm. ROs: arthur campbell.

angelica vaughan ♡ she/her (f). nicknames: angie. fc: benedetta gargari. 5′8/172cm. ROs: vinh nguyen.

CHECKMATE IN 3 MOVES

cahya vinteren ♡ she/her (f). fc: brianne tju. 5′1/154cm. ROs: noir zu, jareth january.

diamond emeraude vinteren ♡ she/they (nb). fc: savannah smith. 5′7/170cm. ROs: sailor bones, hawthorne (spilt milk).

CHOICES: BLADES OF LIGHT AND SHADOWS

nehal nightbloom ♡ she/all (genderfluid). species: elf. fc: misc. 5′11/180cm. ROs: all. tbd.

CHOICES: OPEN HEART

victoria torres ♡ she/her (f). nicknames: vic, v. fc: tashi rodriguez/ giovana cordeiro. 5′1/155cm. ROs: bryce lahela.

COLLEGE TENNIS: ORIGIN STORY

angel rivas ♡ they/he (nb). fc: omar rudberg. 5′9/175cm. style: all-court player. doubles partner: rayyan. ROs: rayyan afiq. 

FIELDS OF ASPHODEL

persephone ♡ she/any (agender). fc: misc/anya chalotra. 5′6/167cm. ROs: hades, tbd. tag.

INFAMOUS

kate hanna ♡ they/them (nb). august 23rd. full name: kateebah. stage name: arkane (prev: rickety kate). band: dance of the planets. genre(s): alt-rock, pop punk. fc: nour rizk. 6′2/187cm. ROs: seven lawless.

sung-won kang ♡ she/they (f). december 15th. nicknames: sunni, lucky. stage name: lady luck. band: WBM. genre(s): pop rap, R&B, hip-hop, EDM. fc: jeon so-yeon/kang min-ah. 5′7/169cm. ROs: griffin reign + victoria valentine, orion quinn.

OUR LIFE

jamie last ♡ they/them (nb). fc: tbd. 6′/182.5cm. ROs: cove holden.

cierra last ♡ she/her (f). nicknames: cherry. fc: kendra bailey/misc. 6′/182.5cm. ROs: derek suarez. 

marina howard ♡ she/her (f). fc: yvonne logan. 5′/153cm. ROs: baxter ward.

PERFUMARE

sharona west. real name: milagros ramon. ♡ she/her (nb). fc: lizeth selene. 5′3.5/161cm. ROs: flavio esposito.

naomi morren. real name: naomi kurosawa ♡ she/they (f). fc: rina fukushi. 5′10/179cm. ROs: reed esposito, laurent rosier.

PROJECT HADEA

sidra. real name: yuna arai. ♡ they/he (nb). fc: misc. 5′7/169cm. ROs: nash, rohan.

gienah. real name: izzi muhammad ♡ she/they (nb). fc: bonzaimai on ig/misc. 5′9/176cm. ROs: rhaxa. 

SCOUT: AN APOCALYPSE STORY

jamilah durant ♡ she/her (f).   nicknames: jam. fc: sharon alexie. 5′6/168cm. ROs: oliver shen.

SHEPHERDS OF HAVEN

shanna wenrys ♡ she/they (f/nb). fc: misc. 4′11.5/151cm. ROs: blade bronwyn.

kiran rhune ♡ they/them (nb/genderfluid). fc: misc. 5′2.5/159cm. ROs: red antiqua.

SPEAKER

kassandra farhat ♡ she/they (nb). nicknames: kass. fc: jamie gray-hyder. 5′11/179cm. ROs: li cowles, sebastian wynric. connections: sebille (sister), scooby boo (dog).

SUPERSTITION

sage roe ♡ she/her (f). fc: zoë kravitz. 5′2/157cm. ROs: zillah. 

THE BASTARD OF CAMELOT

mordred pendragon ♡ she/they/he (genderqueer). fc: tbd. ROs: galahad du lac.

THE EXILE

farja ja’qhar ♡ she/her (f). title: painted phoenix. fc: misc. 5′1/155cm. ROs: syfyn.

nathair cheronobog ♡ he/him (m). title: gilded gorgon. fc: noen eubanks. 6′5/196cm. ROs: vethna, +nikke.

neamhain rezoth ♡ they/them (nb). title: deathless demon. fc: tbd. ROs: freedom.

saeha lygris ♡ he/him (m). title: white wolf. fc: park seonghwa. 5′8/174cm. ROs: sabir + nikke.

THE MIDNIGHT HOURS

reyna santos ♡ she/her (f). fc: shay mitchell. 5′4/161cm. ROs: rylan villanueva.

ziv mays ♡ they/them (nb). fc: jaiiy d. moses. 6′/183cm. ROs: blane rekner.

salvador soto ♡ he/they (m). nicknames: chava. fc: misc/cristo fernández. 6′3/190.5cm. ROs: k de vries. 

THE WAYHAVEN CHRONICLES

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Movie Review | Master Ninja (Clouse, 1984)

Imagine going to see Revenge of the Ninja or something like that in theatres, coming home and getting all excited to see more ninja action on TV, and tuning into this only to see 100-year-old Lee Van Cleef getting stunt doubled literally anytime he has to do anything physically strenuous, and getting barely any Sho Kosugi to boot? Yeah, not hard to see why this got canceled. 

As you can guess, this is super low energy and lame, and it doesn’t help that Van Cleef’s co-star Timothy Van Patten is whiny and off putting. I remember him being engaging in Class of 1984, but that charisma is absent here. Van Cleef still has that glint in his eye, but he’s also never looked more frail, which makes it all the funnier whenever it cuts to Sho Kosugi as his stunt double during the action scenes. I’ll say that the handful of minutes of ninja action, which usually come at the end of the episodes, are well done. So if you were around when this originally aired, you could probably tune in for the last ten minutes of the episode and skip the rest. 

This is supposed to combine the first two episodes. Tubi for some reason doesn’t have the first episode, but I found that on YouTube and checked out the second on Tubi. I will likely not explore further. 

The first episode has a telling moment where Kosugi, also playing one of the villains, disguises himself as an old white guy, which will give a lot to grapple with for those interested in unpacking the series’ racial dynamics. It also has Demi Moore as a guest star. The second episode features Soon-Teck Oh and Brian Tochi as guest stars, although sadly they are not allowed much depth. There is however a scene where Shanna Reed dances under duress, which is likely the non-action highlight of the episode. It also ends with wheelchair-bound Lori Lethin learning how to walk again, so race is not the only area where the series espouses questionable attitudes. 

So this is horrible and rightfully forgotten, but I’ll throw in that Van Cleef plays a white guy, in case you were worried about some horrifying yellowface acting.

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2k summerslam day 2 results for 8/18/23

Kick off 8 man battle royal for the 24/7 champ

White ranger vs danger ranger vs tails vs ronald mcdonald vs scorpion vs red ranger vs rain vs green ranger

Tails won and the new 24/7 champ

Joker vs Rellik the CLOWN in Lights Out Circus Match

Joker won

Logan Paul vs Ric Flair for the right for the Official Energy Drink in Street Fight

Logan paul won

Braun Strowman Walter vs Brock Lesnar Great Khal Bronson Reed Hell in a Cell Match for the Trios championship

Broson read team won

Awesome Kong vs Nia Jax in I quit Match you just say one of them Said they quit

Awesome kong won

Hardys Bully Ray vs NWO Ladder Match for WCW Tag Team Championship

Nwo won and new wcw tag team champs

Roman Reigns vs Cody Rhodes vs Seth Rollins for WWE Universal Championship

Roman won and still universal champ

Trump vs billy bob

Billy bob joe won

Jade Cargill Britt Vs Rhea Ripley Rosemary vs Bella Twins women tag team belts Ladder Match

Rhea and rosemary is are new women's tag team champs

Ronda Rousey vs Shanna Brazler hell in a Cell Match 2 out 3 falls match

Ronda won 3 to 2

Shawn Michaels vs Aj Styles Dream Match once a lifetime match in 30 minutes Iron Man Match

It was a drawl 8-8

Main Event for day 2 Undertaker vs Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Edge for WWE Championship

Stone cold won and thekingslayer deputed and atack ston cold

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The Trouble with Larry  -  CBS  -  August 25, 1993  -  September 8, 1993

Sitcom (6 episodes - 3 unaired)

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Bronson Pinchot as Larry Burton

Courteney Cox as Gabriella Easden

Alex McKenna as Lindsay Flatt

Perry King as Boyd Flatt

Shanna Reed as Sally Easden Flatt

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THE BANKER (1989) Reviews and free to watch online

THE BANKER (1989) Reviews and free to watch online

‘His passion is business by day, murder by night.’ The Banker is a 1989 American psycho-thriller in which high-priced call girls are being systematically murdered. The victims’ corpses are mutilated and a bizarre South American symbol painted in their blood is found at the scene. Meanwhile, the hardened cop in charge of investigating the murders before his ex-wife, a TV reporter, becomes the next…

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I Had Three Wives (1985) - intro

Jackson Beaudine is a private investigator, who has been married three times; to Mary, a lawyer, Liz, a reporter, and Samantha, an actress. And somehow, they all get along, and occasionally Jackson either turns to one or all of them for help with one of his cases, or they call on him to help them.

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Marvel Two-in-One #3 (Gerber/Buscema, May 1974). Matt borrows the Fantasticar to visit the Black Specter’s flying fortress. He’s unable to save Ben or Nat from hypnosis…

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From Fantastic Four: The Prodigal Sun #001

Art by Francesco Manna and Espen Grundetjern

Written by Peter David

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Fantastic Four: The Prodigal Sun #1

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So I did end up watching both Alien Avengers I (the one without baby Jason Sudeikis) and Alien Avengers II (the one with baby Jason Sudeikis).

They were definitely movies.

I remember when I tried to look them up, I could find very little information about either movie. So I thought I’d share my Opinions about them below the cut.

Be careful for spoilers.  For movies from 1996 and 1997.

So the first move, Alien Avengers I or “Welcome to Planet Earth” is interesting.  it’s very Roger Corman, which means that I’m not altogether sure what the genre actually is.

It’s a comedy, but also a bit of horror, and some pretty biting social commentary.  And a surprising amount of slightly cartoonish gore.

The main premise is that George Wendt and Shanna Reed play “Charlie” and “Rhonda”, who look like a perpetually cheerful middle-aged white couple that are throwbacks to 1950s sitcom parents in a way (particularly in dress).  They and their sulky, homesick daughter show up in a pretty awful part of town, presumably in California (?) for “vacation”, claiming that they want their daughter to experience “other cultures”.

Of course the twist, which is kind of blown in the title, is that they’re aliens.  They come from an ultra peaceful, orderly society and they are on vacation.  And what they do on this vacation is create elaborate scenarios that provoke admittedly horrible people to try to rob, rape, or kill them and murder the folk right back, all with cheerful touristy expressions.  (Rhonda even takes many many pictures with her ever present camera.)

Their daughter, Daphne, isn’t enjoying any of this.  She seems to be the only one of the aliens with a conscience and is not particularly interesting in hurting or killing anyone (though she does end up killing someone in genuine self defense: a gang banger who thinks she’s got influence over her new boyfriend.)

The fourth lead character is Joseph, who is a young black man from this terrible neighborhood.  He may or may not be involved in some minor theft/illicit sale of goods (though he claims it’s legitimate and he has papers for everything) at the beginning of the movie, but is careful and adamant that he wants to avoid any involvement in the drug dealing or violence in the neighborhood.  His mother died recently (shot in a random act of violence) and left him her run down boarding house.  He is very surprised to get new, very strange tenants who are happy to fix up the place and even happier when he ends up dating their daughter.

So as mentioned, there’s a lot of pretty biting social commentary here.  From the middle-aged white couple who happily invade this inner city neighborhood as gawkers and tourists.  To their gleeful sociopathic indifference to the lives of the people within.  (Admittedly, it’s rather satisfying to see them go after their victims, especially the Neo-Nazi would-be rapists.)  To the way that most of the community’s response to the killings is satisfaction that someone is cleaning up the streets.  To the cheerful friendliness with which they treat Joseph, but also their happy smiles as they blithely frame him for their own crimes.  To their happy enthusiasm that their daughter gets “serviced” sexually, but at the same time, their incomprehension that she might care about Joseph as a person rather than as someone that sexually gratifies her.  To their assumption that once “vacation” is done, they’ll just go home, the whole experience relegated to pleasant memory and scrapbook.  Heck, even the resolution, which involves Charlie and Rhonda in prison for their crimes (but always cheerful: lots of people to provoke and kill for fun!), shows us guards who are completely sympathetic, insisting that these nice people don’t belong here in jail.

There’s a LOT here, and definitely worth unpacking.  I don’t necessarily think it’s a GOOD movie, per se.  But I’m not sure I’d call it a bad one either.  It was an experience.

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The sequel, Alien Avengers II or “Aliens Among Us” is the one that also happens to be Jason Sudeikis’s first movie.  

Sadly, it doesn’t have the social relevance of the first movie.  There are a few notes here and there: like the way the police have been giving Charlie and Rhonda special treatment prior to their release.  Their release for good behavior due to prison overcrowding, despite having murdered at least four people.  (And judging by the end of the first movie, killing others while in prison.)

Mostly though, it’s far more of a straight out comic farce.  Which is a bit of a shame.

So the plot is that newly freed Charlie and Rhonda end up stowing away in a freezer truck that houses a decapitated body, as one does.  The truck owner finds them and well, the usual happens.  Though unlike the first movie, we don’t actually see the violence and gore on screen.  They eventually ditch the truck and find a town that’s basically a throwback to the wild west, where the Sheriff’s head was recently found sans the rest of him.  And there’s a whole alien abduction plot.  More specifically, a land developer is trying to get people to sell their land so he can make a tourist attraction and is doing so by staging alien abductions.  And murdering people, both directly (the Sheriff) and indirectly (the Deputy was supposed to be a witness/victim of alien abduction, but he dies of a heart attack mid scare session.)  Tourists Charlie and Rhonda end up volunteering to be Sheriffs.

The other plot involves Daphne and Joseph’s return to Earth after their escape last movie.  Joseph in particular is quite homesick, and we see that the structured lives on their home planet does grate on people.  They’re sent back to fetch Daphne’s parents, now that they’ve been released from prison, before they wreak more havoc.  In the process, their spaceship (disguised as a car) is stolen/ransacked/made undrivable, so they end up hitching a ride in an RV with an eccentric couple and their “son”.

The big thing is that Rhonda was recast for this movie.  Shanna Reed is now Julie Brown.  The reason given for this in character is that she and Charlie fucked so hard on a conjugal visit that her head popped off.  It is a rather funny bit that no one in the prison actually notices she’s a different woman.

Julie Brown’s very funny, but she has a broader comedic approach.  Which probably suits this movie better.  But robs it of some of the social commentary part.  Shanna Reed’s Rhonda was on point, a sweet 1950s inspired white woman with a truly vicious streak.  Julie Brown is just cheerfully homicidal.

There’s far less gore and violence.  This is explained by Rhonda and Charlie embracing and celebrating the idea that on Earth, the punishment fits the crime.  So we get ironic punishments, instead of quite as much throat slitting of hijackers.  Some of which are guiltily satisfying (the dude who cost a woman her legs in a hit and run is pulled apart - off camera thank god, when they tie him to two separate cars and drive in opposite directions) and some that just don’t really work.  The speeder is an arrogant asshole, sure, but tying him to the hood of their car and racing him around seems a bit much when he hadn’t actually hurt anyone.  He makes it out alive but as we see from the Deputy situation, he might not have.

It’s a shame, because there was the potential to say something interesting about casual sadism of police officers and the ease with which white people can slide into roles of authority.  Unfortunately, the pseudo Wild West setting (complete with miserable bartender) and the alien abduction stuff (complete with “news” anchor) just kind of lose any sort of point.

The RV couple might be the closest thing they have to social commentary.  They’re eccentric over-sharers.  He’s into alien stuff.  She’s along for the ride.  We learn right away that they can’t have kids and they compensate, not by adoption or foster care or another sane route, but by taking in foreign exchange students every year.  They’re friendly hosts, but insist in gender-segregating the tents when they camp, even though Daphne and Joseph are adults and would prefer to sleep together.  When Daphne and Joseph are caught (via photographs) sneaking off to the RV to have sex, they’re immediately kicked out into the desert.  Which you know, in a serious movie, would basically be murder.  (instead, they learn that Daphne is an alien and see her device explode.)

So that brings us to Sudeikis’s character.  The movie calls him Gunter.  The credits call him Chester.  I can completely believe that this couple has decided to call their “son” (who speaks very little English and seems to have only a limited comprehension of what’s going on!) by a different name entirely.  He’s very teenaged.  Bored, most of the time.  Occasionally enthusiastically shouts things in broken English.  He takes a LOT of pictures with his camera, which is a really interesting parallel to Rhonda in the first movie.

The parallels between Gunter/Chester and our...heroes? is pretty interesting though.  He’s a tourist.  He has no emotional investment in what’s going on here.  He’s occasionally curious but mostly disinterested.  He’s a bit of a perv: some of his photos of Daphne are of a more objectifying nature.  And when he realizes the other two are having sex, he is quick to take pictures.  He’s then pretty indifferent when his pictures are used as the reason to kick Daphne and Joseph out.   Like Charlie and Rhonda, he’s has no real appreciation or interest in the damage he causes.

Of course, there are differences too.  He’s a kid.  (It’s not clear exactly how old he’s supposed to be, but late teenage seems a good bet.)  It wasn’t good that he took the pictures at all, but he also didn’t intentionally share them.  His “mother” presumptively grabbed them out of his hand.  There’s no indication that his “parents” have made any attempts to communicate with the kid at all.  He only exists to them when it suits them.

Though this invisibility ends up working to his advantage, since he’s the only one who gets to keep his camera and photographs at the end of the movie.  It is rather amusing to see the human characters grumble about how no one will ever believe them without proof, while the teenage foreigner is off in the corner, flipping through an album of pictures of aliens, exploding devices (and presumably Charlie and Rhonda stabbed by a knife and with a bullet in their chest before getting better.)

I think ultimately Joseph has the most thankless plot.  They seem to have utterly forgotten that he was suspect 1 for vigilante serial killing last movie.  I don’t expect the RV folk to know, but Daphne probably could bring it up while they bicker about where to live.  Their relationship tension is resolved with a kidnapping and a “I do really love you” bit, and then a semi-shotgun marriage so he can stay on her planet (they’re cracking down on “illegal aliens.”)

There was also a weird bit where the alien government dude makes a point of asking if he loves Daphne for more than just sex (which they have, a lot, we’re told.  Good for them.)  And this doesn’t quite sit right with the way the first movie presented their relationship and the others’ reactions.  To go from a critique of viewing black men as sexual objects to then acting like HE is the one obsessed with sex didn’t sit right with me.

I did mostly enjoy the movie though.  George Wendt is always charming.  The actors playing Daphne and Joseph did a good job with relatively thankless roles.  Sudeikis was very amusing in his role, though I’m not entirely sure he knew he was supposed to be speaking German.  Or what German is.  Or that it’s a language at all.

It’s definitely a bad movie, without any of the genuinely interesting beats of the first one.  But as comic farces go, I’ve seen worse.  And now we know what Ted Lasso looked like at age 20-21.  So yay!