It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up for the Tri-State Watch Party, Little Shop of Horrors!
The Netflix Watch Party app ended up being a little complicated, so we just set a time to hit “play” and then chatted through instant messenger. Click the jump to read some highlights from the conversation.
The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, Nathan, and the parents (Parents represented here by Marian, because Dad would chisel a message in a stone tablet before typing anything on a phone.)
Kathryn
Ready to play?
Elizabeth
Ready when you are!
Hannah
Ready here
Kathryn
Pressing play
Elizabeth
Playing!
Nathan
I didn’t know his was directed by Frank Oz.
Kathryn
I completely forgot this intro narration
Hannah
Me too!
Kathryn
Anyone seen the Roger Corman version of this?
Nathan
It’s bad!
Elizabeth
Oh I believe it’s gawdawful
Hannah
Oh I forgot the diegetic girl group!
Elizabeth
They’re one of the things I actually remember!
Kathryn
I particularly remember ONE song by this trio that gives me chills
Hannah
I don’t want to speak on behalf of Black women but it stresses me out to see their ‘dos in the rain
Elizabeth
Hee
Hannah
I don’t think I was double digits last time I saw this
Elizabeth
I think it’s been at least 20 years for me
Kathryn
I remember we had this on repeat for a while
Hannah
She was one of the aunts on Pushing Daisies
Nathan
I’d forgotten how annoying her voice was.
Marian
Elizabeth
I don’t think I remember this song
Hannah
Oh I am DIGGING the gospel
Nathan
Looks like they’re working on a remake of the original film.
Elizabeth
No, I have no memory of this song at all
Hannah
I am so tickled by all of this
Can we watch Newsies next?
Kathryn
I love how literally none of the chorus on the street LOOK like musical movie cast members
Glorious
Hannah
That’s the world building/”I want” number
Plant POV
Elizabeth
Weird how my brain works, I remembered it was in a coffee can
Nathan
It’s Christopher Guest from Spinal Tap!
Hannah
Yes
And all of the mockumentaries
Nathan
Don’t think that’s his voice, though.
Hannah
No goodnik
I literally just whimpered on behalf of the plant
Elizabeth
hahaha
Hannah
I really did not realize how doo-whoppy this was
Elizabeth
I was always super impressed with the animation of Audrey 2
Nathan
At this point I’d be killing it with fire.
Hannah
Hahaha
Kathryn
Pretty impressive practical effects
Hannah
This is like if Sweeney Todd met In the Heights
Frank Oz knows from puppets
Nathan
Kathryn
Aw, John Candy
Hannah
Aw
Elizabeth
I forgot ALL OF THIS
Hannah
Soul patch alert
This song I remember
Elizabeth
Same
Hannah
This is what I think of when people talk about a house with a white picket fence
Elizabeth
Holy cow, so do I, I never realized that’s what I was thinking of
Kathryn
Something about this actress reminds me of Sarah Paulson from American Horror Story
Elizabeth
They both have a little lisp?
Kathryn
Yes, it’s definitely something with the mouth
Hannah
And talk in the front of their mouths yes
MLM WARNING
Elizabeth
Tupperware!
Chills
Hannah
Can’t think of separate twin beds the same since Unorthodox
Elizabeth
Still haven’t watched that
Hannah
THIS IS SO WEIRD
Elizabeth
And gets so much weirder!!
“Hand me the lilies.” Always loved that line.
Worst arrangement ever 😄
Kathryn
I WAS JUST THINKING THAT
Elizabeth
HERE WE GO
Kathryn
Heeeere we go
Elizabeth
Jinx!
Hannah
I FORGOT HE WAS THE BOYFRIEND
Elizabeth
I LOVE THIS SONG
Hannah
The leader of the plaque STOP IT
Elizabeth
hahaha
YAAAY!
Kathryn
Again, glorious
Hannah
Stevie’s got the poppers
Elizabeth
Gotta be in my top ten favorite flamboyant bad guys
(Don’t ask me who the other nine are I have no idea.)
Hannah
Twoey
How did they do this
Elizabeth
NO idea, totally looking up “the making of” videos after this
Nathan
Nowadays, they would CGI this and it would look like crap.
Hannah
Maybe stop motion and split screen?
Elizabeth
I forgot how much I liked this song
Hannah
Lead vocalist of the Four Tops?
Elizabeth
YES another of my favorite scenes!!
Hannah
Audrey II is Levi Stubbs
Kathryn
I honestly think this is one of the first things I saw Bill Murray in.
Hannah
Bill Murray hasn’t changed in 40 years and it’s to his credit
Nathan
His hair has just gotten wilder 😄
Elizabeth
I can’t stop giggling
“Sturdy, heavy…dull…”
Hannah
Same
Kathryn
Hannah
I mean to the giggling but also the quote haha
Kathryn
This was the part I remember sending Mom into hysterics
Elizabeth
the little flappy balloons!
Hannah
She’s losing it
Can I get nitrous oxide for my CPAP please?
Nathan
Elizabeth
Until he put the mask on I totally forgot how he died, I was trying to remember if Seymour shot him
And the brown blood saving this from an R rating?
Nathan
Possibly.
Hannah
I just thought that was hyper-realistic dried blood
Elizabeth
Random, but as a kid I loved this outfit of hers, I think I wore variations of it through high school
Minus the cleavage of course
Hannah
Heh
Shorts layered over longs is a good look
Elizabeth
specially with black sleeves
Kathryn
“Cheap and tasteless outfits.”
Elizabeth
“Not nice ones like this”
Kathryn
The mind boggles
Hannah
Hee
Kathryn
Zero memory of this song
I think we must have fast forwarded over it.
Elizabeth
I remember the “suddenly seymour” chorus and nothing else
Hannah
Pushing Daisies got her AND Kristin Chenoweth
Elizabeth
Closing song of the second act?
Hannah
Can we pause?
Elizabeth
Yep!
Good pausing point.
Hannah
I was thinking right before intermission
That song
Elizabeth
Kathryn
One of my favorite appearances of the trio here
I remember watching their reaction at the height of this song a BUNCH of times
Elizabeth
We’re still paused?
Nathan
We paused?
Hannah
We’re ready to restart
Elizabeth
I think Kathryn and Nathan went on
Nathan
Yep!
Hannah
Heh, well we’ll restart now
Elizabeth
I’m at the moment Seymour walked in the store
Kathryn
Sorry, let us know when you get to the end of Suppertime
Elizabeth
Restarting!
Nathan
Let us know when you get to 1:06.
1:06:51
Hannah
LOVE THIS SONG
(Suppertime getting going now)
Kathryn
Still gives me chills, even after all these years.
Hannah
106:46 now
Nathan
Elizabeth
Same!
Kathryn
What happened to the goddamn greenery?
Hannah
I think I saw the officer from Shawshank in the crowd
Elizabeth
The really evil one?
Hannah
Yes
Kathryn
How do you take pictures with that phone?
Elizabeth
Har
Kathryn
And why is it attached to a cord?
Hannah
Heh
This is a parable for capitalism
Elizabeth
True
Hannah
“It was so cute and then we started making money and it turned into a monster”
What’s his futz’s brother
Nathan
Jim Belushi.
Hannah
Yes
Kathryn
I don’t know why, but I love in musicals when someone calls a halt mid-song.
Hannah
Haha yes
Oh, no, I would just leave it
Elizabeth
“This is between me and the vegetable.”
Hannah
Auburn Oaks that shit
Elizabeth
The chorus line here is so Frank Oz
Hannah
HARMONIZING BUDS
WALK AWAY, SEYMOUR. IT’S IMMOBILE
Nathan
FIRE, SEYMOUR! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Kathryn
Deus ex electrical cord
Nathan
Electricity works, too. 😄
Hannah
Serious question: Why didn’t this win best picture?
Elizabeth
No idea, what was it up against?
Nathan
The Last Emperor.
Elizabeth
This is so much more fun 
Hannah
…I mean, it wasn’t nominated, haha
That was just perfect
Elizabeth
Oh the Roger Corman film came FIRST?
Nathan
Yeah, by about 15 years. 
Kathryn
I need to listen to the Best Pick Podcast episode where they talk about this one.
One of the podcasters is a huge fan of ALL the versions.
Nathan
And the actor that played Seymour in the original also played Todd in Viking Women and the Sea Serpent.
Elizabeth
WHAT
Kathryn
Hee
Nathan
Kathryn
Oh it’s so bad.
Different ending too, everybody dies
Nathan
There’s a Rifftrax version, which is the one I’d recommend.
Elizabeth
I think that really stuck with me when I was a kid, having the baby Audrey in the ending meant it wasn’t ENTIRELY happy
Kathryn
Meh, I figured he’d know not to give it any blood this time 
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