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Spooktober Halloween Treat! It's Mr. Boogedy!
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Spooktober Halloween Treat! It's Mr. Boogedy!

Happy Spooktober! We wanted to give you a special Halloween treat, so please enjoy this bonus episode, which was previously locked to our paid subscribers! We originally recorded this for New Year’s, having NO IDEA the horrors that 2020 was waiting to unleash upon us. Now? Well, we thought everyone might enjoy a little more fun distraction to get through this week.

If you love this one, our bonus for paid subscribers coming out tomorrow is Bride of Boogedy! We also did some special Spooktober episodes on Casper the Friendly Ghost and Garfield’s Halloween Adventure. If you do decide to subscribe, you can listen to all of them!

Okay, Who’s ready to Boogedy?

This is a 45 minute long made for TV spooky and silly movie, which you can watch on Disney Plus if you so desire. Geoffrey remembered loving this one as a kid. Julia saw it once at school and was scared of it.

If Julia had written a summary, it would have said, “A family goes to a house and it is scary and there’s a man there and he’s really scary.” But this was Geoffrey’s pick, and his summary is much more detailed!

Here’s Geoffrey’s Summary:

“A man who sells weird gadgets and his family buy a new house. But it's haunted! A long time ago (Pilgrim times?) there was a nasty old man who sold his soul to the devil for a magic cloak because he hated everyone and his face was all messed up This gave him magic powers. They called him Mr. Boogedy. He haunts the house, and so does some lady and a boy named Jonathan. At the end, I think they suck the cloak up in a vacuum cleaner to save the day.”

Geoffrey’s summary was waaaayyy more correct, but it missed a couple of key points.

One: Mr. Boogedy’s face didn’t get gross until after he had the cloak and tried to cast a spell that backfired and instead blew up his house.

Two: The dad sells practical jokes. And plays practical jokes. So many practical jokes.

Including these trick glasses.

Image Description: A still from Mr. Boogedy showing a child wearing fake glasses with uncanny eyeballs in them, possibly the scariest prop in the entire film.

This movie has a bunch of notable people, and we get into some interesting conversations about stuff like Sean Astin’s family tree, The name of Geoffrey’s first crush, and our theories on what would actually have happened in the 1600s if someone tried to use a devil cloak to magically force a widow to marry him… Opinions vary! Send us your own theory if you like!

Happy Halloween!

If you’re a paid subscriber, you’ll get Bride of Boogedy tomorrow! If you’re not, your Halloween treat is this one, but we’re going to put the original After These Messages episode for this movie up for you as our first regularly scheduled November podcast!

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This Is Why We're Like This
This Is Why We're Like This
Boston area comedians Julia Rios and Geoffrey Pelton discuss the movies we watched as children that shaped who we are today, for better ... or for worse