Great Episode: Good opening, Lewis Black and a funny interview.
I’m looking forward to the Oscars.
Jim
A blue spring that wants to freeze the world with ice he shoots out of his mustache… I now have to see this movie!
That was the funniest interview I’ve seen in a while. Jon seemed pretty embarrassed about the movie - I can’t figure out why the heck he did it. [I know, money, but why this movie, now, when there’s no way he needs money?] I was surprised to see his name in the trailer; he hasn’t done a movie in years.
I admit I was a little disappointed that neither Jon nor Ebert said anything about Jon’s hair in Death to Smoochy. Sure, Ebert said the movie was unpleasant, but Jon’s bangs were worse.
He looked like an evil snowman in the trailers, so I guess that’s kind of it. You’re talking about Doogal, right?
I felt the same way (but am not sure I actually will go see it)…I think Jon did more for ticket sales by making fun of his role in the movie than any advertising could.
I was expecting Jon to make a joke about being a whore for movie roles.
That was the funniest interview in a long time.
I am one of the few people who loved “Death to Smoochy”.
I can’t help myself but William’s delivery of this line cracks me up:
Warning Cursing: Bastard Son of Barney! Die! Die, stuffed ball of fluff! Illegitimate Teletubbie! Die, you Muppet from hell! Die, you foam motherfucker!
Jim
Proposal: one of us TDS & TCR fans starts a weekly thread each Monday night or Tueday Morning.
I have noticed we average 2-3 threads a week on these two closely related shows and if the idea isn’t too stupid maybe it is worthwhile.
I’ll post it in the other active TDS thread also.
Jim
I like that idea.
Yup, Doogal. The “blue spring” line is more or less exactly how Jon Stewart described it, and then proceeded to lose it for about 2 minutes. I couldn’t stop laughing for at least 5, and then rewound and watched it again, and laughed some more.
I just saw the Ebert interview- very funny stuff. The whole Doogal thing was pretty funny. (“You’re Zebedee, the other spring.” “Does he oscillate while he’s talking?”) But by far the funniest part was Stewart and Ebert debating the weaponry of the Ninja Turtles. It was almost surreal.
Speaking of surreal, I’ve seen the ads for Doogal, and if that isn’t surreal, I don’t know what is. Jon Stewart, as we’ve already made clear, is an evil spring-snowman thing. He plan is to be foiled by a young dog. Whoopi Goldberg is a moose of some sort, Jimmy Fallon is a singing rabbit, there’s some sort of train, and at least once every reel, Eh! Steve will come out and say his catchphrase. Okay, maybe I made that last part up, but it seems rather odd. I see it’s a England-France co-production. Must be something weird in the English Channel.
He needs to be able to make self-deprecating jokes about his movie career to actors he’s interviewing, and Half-Baked, Death to Smoochy, and Big Daddy are wearing out a bit.
He took the role so that the next time he’s interviewing Anthony Hopkins he can say they have a lot in common: “You played a man who was one of the greatest American novelists of the 20[sup]th[/sup] Century and a celebrated icon of the Lost Generation, and I played a blue spring bent on freezing the world with his ice-moustache. Let’s talk craft.”
It’ll never get old, so long as he keeps changing up the bottom-of-the-barrel roles. 
I was a bit disappointed that Jon didn’t take the opportunity to talk a little about Beneath the Valley of the Dolls. What an opening, with that quote from the review of Death to Smoochy.
William H. Macy, Ian McKellan, and Judi Dench are all in it. And yet it looks terrible. I don’t know what to make of that. Are they all really hard up for money?
This is the IMDB list:
Chevy Chase … Train (voice)
Judi Dench … Narrator (voice)
Cory Edwards … Additional Voices (voice)
Jimmy Fallon … Dylan (voice)
Whoopi Goldberg … Ermintrude (voice)
Bill Hader … Soldier Sam (voice)
John Krasinski … Additional Voices (voice)
William H. Macy … Brian (voice)
Ian McKellen … Zebedee (voice)
Kylie Minogue … Florence (voice)
Kevin Smith … Moose (voice)
Jon Stewart … Zeebad (voice)
Daniel Tay … Doogal (voice)
The trailer I saw made “Doogal” look like some kind of “Lord of the Rings” spoof. Which either explains a lot, or just makes the whole idea that much more surreal, I’m not sure which.
It turns out that Doogal is a movie based on the French TV show The Magic Roundabout with the voices redubbed by well-known American actors. Okay. I told you those French were on something.