Crackpot Cinema: Ep #27 — Whatchoo Talkin’ ’Bout, Rainn Wilson
 
Rainn Wilson guests on Crackpot Cinema to marvel at Gary Coleman living in a train station locker and picking racetrack winners in the 1981 opus, ON THE RIGHT TRACK. 
 
That’s right! RAINN WILSON! The once-and-forever Dwight Schrute/Bassoon King/Soul Pancake Yogi subjected himself not only to this curious farce about a homeless kid with psychic gambling powers, he also helps us suss out:
 
• Why 1981 is the ultimate year for Cinematic Crackpotica!
 
• The matchless excitement of vintage Fall Preview TV specials!
 
• ALL the words to the Kaptain Kool and the Kongs’ theme song!
 
• Norman F@¢&ing Fell! 
 
• How frazzled, fractured Inner Child McBeardo might have prompted one co-host to rate ON THE RIGHT TRACK as a “Gary Coleman” rather than a “Gary Colon.”
 
And — PAY ATTENTION HERE — if you listen all the way through, Rainn makes a very special offer to YOU, our beloved Crackpot Public! (Get ready to tweet #OnTheRightTrack to @rainnwilson) 
 
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Ep 27 - Whatchoo Talkin’ ’Bout, Rainn Wilson

Crackpot Cinema: Ep. 29 — BUSTIN’ LOOSE (1981) and D.C. CAB (1983)
 
Guest co-host PAT HEALY comes roaring back for high-octane, outrageously anti-social, bizarrely heart-warming careen into the early-’80s R-rated comedy oddities BUSTIN’ LOOSE (1981) with Richard Pryor and D.C. CAB (1983) with — get ready — Mr. T, The Barbarian Brothers, Charlie Barnett, Marsha Warfield, Max Gail, Bill Maher, Irene Cara … AND Gary Busey as Dell (he demanded the special “AND” credit).
 
Unnecessarily and inappropriately profane highlights include:
 
• Joe Mason — Barber for Hire, Foot for Popemobile to Run Over! 
 
• The curious ’70s-turning-’80s phenomenon of R-rated PG movies! 
 
• How false advertising worked for BUSTIN’ LOOSE, but failed for BLUE COLLAR!
 
• UNCLE TOM’S FAIRY TALES aka Richard Pryor’s THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED! 
 
• Gary Busey does filthy toilet floor “intestinal yoga”!
 
• Mr. T pities the gimmick star who can’t crowbar “Just Say No” messaging into a filthy comedy about genuinely dangerous and reprehensible “heroes”! 
 
• Pat Healy tweet-slaps Adam Baldwin!
 
• Timothy Carey goes to Hell — and Charlie Barnett drives him there! 
 
• The profound impact upon young Mike McPadden of NEW YORK magazine critic David Denby’s one-line summation of ST. ELMO’S FIRE — i.e., “Directed by the brutally untalented Joel Schumacher.” 
 
(Thank you to KINO LORBER for putting out BUSTIN’ LOOSE and D.C. CAB as Special Edition Blu-Rays!)

Ep 29 - Bustin' Loose & D.C. Cab

CRACKPOT CINEMA reels through charming and/or alarming vintage films that have, deservedly or not, slipped into obscurity. Hosted by Mike McPadden (author of "Teen Movie Hell" & "Heavy Metal Movies") & Aaron Lee (TV writer, former Exec Producer of "Family Guy")

Ep 29 - Bustin' Loose & D.C. Cab

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