Beyond The Black Void - Watchbait

[@RedLetterMedia]

Ooooooh it's Shark-in-saw... like Arkansas... I just thought it was Shark/Kansas. I do know how to pronounce the two states. However, I often show up to these shoots liquored up and I'm partially blind because I once saw a demon.

[@Riley_Mundt]

It's an honest mistake anyone could've made.

[@chadtiemeyer2175]

My mom is from Wichita and would have pronounced it the same way. They're weird down there.

[@OhNoJoshEdits]

*ZAC BAGGINS INTENSIFIES*

[@HieronymousLex]

Maybe Arkansas can get off their high horse and stop insisting that the “s” is silent. You’re not that cool, Arkansas.

[@Riley_Mundt]

@@HieronymousLex Arkansas is known for many things, but it's safe to say ego isn't one of them.

[@samu3lk5000]

When Mike Stoklasa takes a folded up piece of printer paper out of his pocket, you know you're in for a good time.

[@korganrocks3995]

And when it turns out it's actually four pieces of paper you know it's gonna be a classic.

[@mandy7674]

Truly!

[@GabAssbreaker]

Those "Mike read dumb shit from a list" are my among my favorite RLM moments.

[@Hambuga97]

God bless the elderly and their inability to remember stuff without a list

[@jswp5]

Really, we should all be surprised that mike can get a printer working in the first place

[@AdamUltraberg]

I worked on Avalanche Sharks. I can tell a lot of stories. The title kept changing between shark and sharks based on if we could get a second shark puppet.

[@DavidADII]

What role did you serve on the cast? What was generally the vibe from people working on it?

[@RyanReenBattikh]

the ultimate "We had this" movie so much so to where it collapses in on its overdependence on a gimmick and inverts to the rare "We may not have this" film

[@koanikal]

You should have gone with Shark Avalanche, in my opinion.

[@kikib8434]

Ok, this may be the best story I have ever heard 🤣🤣🤣😁😁😁!

[@jazz-a-lopium8090]

Shoulda used 'Sharks' in the sequel Aliens style 👍

[@katakis1]

Rich calling Shark Side of the Moon "Comfortably Dumb" was genius.

[@dainumo]

It was the wrong album, but still funny. lmao

[@SuperSaiyanGuyver]

Mike's FTW after making a career of mocking Rich Evans is so wholesome.

[@JTCurtisMusic]

@@dainumomaybe he would have some up with a more relevant pun if he had Time.

[@Higfoot]

Rich has been watching his Nostalgia Critic

[@bozodeathgod]

@@JTCurtisMusic and Money

[@sbushido5547]

I enjoy that Mike has now roped Jay into the "reading lists of names to Rich" genre of videos.

[@unduloid]

Well, they all seem to have a lot of fun doing these, so more power to them... I guess?

[@DinosaurFan88]

"We're not talking about UFOs, we're talking about something that's real: ghosts" might just be the most Mike sentence that Mike has ever said.

[@n3onkn1ght]

It doesn't have anything about Star Trek or drunken incoherent rambling, so at best it's half of the most Mike sentence.

[@nepdisc3722]

@@n3onkn1ght you really believe he's sober for this..?

[@fartquaviasdingle7876]

Half in the Mike senteeeence. "What the hell are movies!!"

[@seamusthatsthedog4819]

"As the kids say, FTW"

[@nepdisc3722]

@@seamusthatsthedog4819 no "kid" has said that in over 15 years.

[@josiahmartuscello8843]

I love this new format of "don't tell Rich what we're gonna talk about, just try to make him laugh with a list of funny things."

[@JaDav40]

We know how good Rich is with improv after his Don Wilson bit...

[@lb5818]

@@JaDav40 don't you mean dan wilson? owner of iowa's largest wildlife preserve?

[@100acatfishandwillbreakyou2]

Kinda weird they cut out the hour long of them just reading off prolific serial killer cases and rich was hysterical.

[@sada0101]

Rich is like Khan of our time. People bringing stuff from all over to amuse the Khan.

[@JakeRayTM]

​@@lb5818iirc, he said both Dan and Don in his bit

[@TechnoSyndro]

I love Mike's new obsession of reading lists of titles on camera

[@Scribbled_Death]

"It happened again?!"

[@Endocrom]

Like a list of sins against cinema or something.

[@admiralmachine]

Yeah, come to think of it, the black metal episode and this one are the better episodes lately.

[@gooseabuse]

from his boomer notebook

[@OhNoJoshEdits]

That’s the only video he make for years. All video is list video. Consume product.

[@bawwsadface]

mike calling lorraine warren "elizabeth warren" and nobody questioning it was much funnier than rich mixing up ed warren and travis walton imo

[@charlottecorday8494]

I'm sure Pocahontas was very honoured to be mentioned in a Red Letter Media video.

[@DBaker1337]

I was in Ouija Mummy. So cool to see it come up! I was the first death! I get a Ouija board thrown into my neck by the said mummy. Making it to Red Letter Media has completely validated my single IMDB credit. I am immensely overjoyed. I may even send some pizza rolls to their webzone as a thank you!

[@KyleBaran90]

That's really cool! Congratulations!

[@VinceP1974]

You made the big time!

[@youruniquehandle2]

woah there @DBaker1337, don't blow your paycheck and the complete sum of your residuals from that movie on an entire bag of pizza rolls.

[@FeviviViper]

That’s amazing lol. What’s the story behind you being apart of it?

[@h.a.9880]

That's hilarious. So I was wondering, what is making these videos like?

[@Fiddl3head]

Man, I just love these "Mike reads many stupid things off a list and Rich laughs at them" videos.

[@FearMonarch]

We even have special appearance Jay to hyper focus him on a topic

[@Liberty-or-Death-1776]

Still waiting on the sequel to 'Mike Reads Episode Titles of the Jerry Springer Show.'

[@cheekclappa69]

we need a Mike reads King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album titles to Rich laughing video.

[@Fiddl3head]

@@cheekclappa69 "This next one is called PetroDragonic Apocalypse, or Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation" and it zooms in on Richs face the entire time with a grin that just keeps getting bigger

[@awonoto]

Darth Vader suit was the precursor to reading things off papers to Rich Evans.

[@ryanebert4275]

I wrote Shark Side of the Moon, and I am so filled with rage… that nobody gave us the note that this is Comfortably Dumb! FTW indeed. What an honor to be mentioned in this video!

[@brinlov]

I've seen it and tbh it was pretty funny! And yes, comfortably dumb. I can only assume you guys had fun with that movie because I laughed a lot (and cringed a bit, but that's part of the fun)

[@kikib8434]

Dude, that's awesome 😁😁😁!

[@ryanebert4275]

@@kikib8434 it really is 😁

[@kikib8434]

@@ryanebert4275 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@larsthedude1984]

I have to ask in all seriousness: how the fuck did you get your film on tubi, and how much did you make. Because God I think I’m in the wrong business.

[@goofygoober4901]

the description really took me on a journey. mike is such a talented storyteller

[@bjchit]

His dementia is kicking in. Or maybe the delirium tremens.

[@greenhoppop]

Not reading allat

[@marcmcdonald8546]

He could have left out Jay and Rich's name, and you'd know it was him because he said "nudie"

[@justincaseaccount3995]

Thanks for pointing it out. That's straight up literature.

[@Mark-jr6ld]

Lucky break with that very large toddler death

[@Taco_Boy]

Mike has officially entered the Elderly stage where he refers to movies as "Pictures"

[@jamesphillips4599]

And Rich looks like a hipster fisherman. This is not an insult.

[@AuDHDarling]

You guys have never been to the US Midwest, have you? These are our people This is how we dress and talk We make casseroles and say things like "gosh darn" and "ope, let me sneak by ya real quick" unironically

[@TokenWhiteGuyAGR]

Or "The Show."

[@andrewrivera1054]

I'm waiting for him to start calling the TV shows he watches his 'stories'. Be quiet you kids my stories are on.

[@i-never-look-at-replies-lol]

oh i'm quite fond of these modern day talkies as well

[@WNDRBY]

I love when they cut to Amityville in Space, it just looks like the old Half in the Bag episodes where the cut-out of the Plinkett House travels around the world.

[@Kidd724]

Honestly it looks worse

[@johnsanko4136]

Rich's "Comfortably Dumb" joke has me rolling. Grade A material.

[@grunkleg.2934]

Is Rich's "Comfortably Dumb" joke better than The Nostalgia Critic's "Comfortably Dumb" joke? Haven't gotten that far. Edit: I got that far. It is better than The Nostalgia Critic's "Comfortably Dumb" joke

[@BenArz1313]

​@@grunkleg.2934Yes, because Rich didn't compose a whole terrible song around the joke.

[@krlosz1996]

@@grunkleg.2934 rich is actually saying something clever off the hat in response to another Pink Floyd reference, NC only pontificates for 1 hour about how smart he must be for not taking The Wall seriously as an art piece while claiming he's doing a "homage", I think Rich Evans wins this one easily lol

[@Koalalover70]

Rich’s joke is such a love letter to Pink Floyd

[@GoetiaTV]

RLM continues their banner year!

[@mattmerolla]

I perked up when I heard Mike mention the director, Mark Polonia. He’s the film and media director at my undergrad university and filmed our choir performances. I only now found out that he was also responsible for bangers like “Feeders” and “Cocaine Shark”. I worked under a legend and had no idea.

[@perstjern-lewis4221]

Feets don’t fail me now

[@damon9443]

You had the opportunity to work with one of the Great Polonia Brothers? Did their magic rub off on you?

[@davistoa]

Surely you must have seen the Best of the Worst where they watched Feeders. If not, then do so and show it to Mark.

[@TheChateauBros]

My uncle made House Shark and it was one of the first movies I worked on! I am honored to see it mentioned by RLM

[@ltipst2962]

This is actual history being made in this comment section. The château bros dont mess about!

[@whoaitsdanny]

I'm pretty sure it's also featured in a video by Elvis the Alien on dumb shark movies, should you be interested.

[@drakkenmensch]

That movie missed the opportunity for the amazing tagline *The House Always Swims*

[@zoezazu01]

I laughed so hard at House Shark and have watched it a few times!

[@nathanrumler8727]

Thanks for giving my flick Amityville Vibrator a mention, guys. I started writing that movie in 2017 to poke fun of the Amityville knock-off trend. There were only ten of them at the time, I believe. If I only knew where they'd be today. Haha.

[@deathsyth8888]

Is it the sexy sequel to 'Amityville Emanuelle' as Jay suggested?

[@nathanrumler8727]

@@deathsyth8888 It is not. Haha. Emanuelle came out three years after Vibrator.

[@skullcollectorSKIN]

Watched it again this weekend Nate !! Cheers from shock stock buddy!!🇨🇦🍻🇨🇦

[@umbram8073]

It looks like a super fun time! It's a shame it's not up streaming somewhere (at least not from what I can find) - the blu ray looks dope but I can't manage getting that atm

[@nathanrumler8727]

​@@umbram8073It wouldn't be allowed on the majority of streaming sites because of the content. I feel like I can say with confidence that mine is the only Amityville flick with lots of graphic nudity and practical gore. The DVD is half the price of the Bluray. But yeah, the special Blu edition has four movies on it, plus a ton of extras, and it's limited, which is why it's priced as such.

[@SteveRudzinski]

I made Amityville Christmas Vacation! Actually posted in the subreddit that I won a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for "Best Amityville" so it's officially THE BEST. I just saw how many Amityville movies there were and lost my mind that it became a "genre." When I realized there hasn't been a "Christmas" one yet I KNEW I had to be the first. So I made it a straight up Hallmark Romantic Comedy just to make sure the first Christmas Amityville wasn't some try hard horror film. Make it as a total parody to take the piss out of the genre. But I made it in TWO DAYS with $300 whole dollars, $50 of which went towards replica Clark Griswold pajamas, because I originally just made it as a joke/gag. Then of course it gets me some of the most press I've ever gotten for ANY of my movies because that's how life works. Edit: KZbin keeps not letting me reply but some of my other films include CarousHELL 1 and 2 (3 next month) and Shingles the Movie.

[@phillyphakename1255]

How does publishing to Tubi work? Is it like KZbin where you just create an account, hit upload, and let the ad revenue roll in?

[@mar85cos]

😊⁰

[@Eamonshort1]

Awesome dude, please rock on, your attitude is great Edit: can I ask what your other films are, if they are on something I have access to I'd love to check them out

[@SteveRudzinski]

​@phillyphakename1255 No you gotta go through an aggregator or distributor and Tubi has to choose your film. Tubi does pay the MOST of the streaming services but it's still like five cents or less per view.

[@urahonky]

This is wonderful, honestly. Keep doing what you do, sir!

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

I want this SAG strike to continue so we get more of these experimental episodes.

[@pogglywoggly3292]

It won't be long before Ellen makes an appearance on the Rich Evans show.

[@whiskerfishermantv]

Haha

[@michaelforward4719]

I love how we have a sub-genre of Mike reading a list to Rich.

[@koanikal]

The best of that was the Star Wars fan fic facts episode. Mike reading Rich that joke book is a close second.

[@billc7480]

I love these "Hey let's just look up wild things that actually exist and record Rich Evans laughing at them" videos. It's an entire content sub-genre at this point. Lol

[@ZhuDaoLong]

Is Title reading with Rich replacing Half in the Bag?

[@cauesilva679]

Richsploitation

[@skaluv]

Speaking of "mystic toys," I recently learned that the Magic Eight Ball was actually based on a failed mysticism tool/toy. The guy invented it towards the end of the fad so it failed. He died but the guy who helped him bring it to market kept the design in an invention "morgue." Years later a company asked him for a fun promotional toy to give out, he saw the psychic tool sitting around and changed it to an eight ball. It did so well he started selling it.

[@musyarofah1]

it's basically real-life magic conch shell

[@the_fat_ghost]

I love Tubi. It reminds me of the early days of Netflix streaming, a Wild West of no budget garbage, conspiracy “documentaries”, and movies that are not as much art as they are evidence of a crime.

[@irigormo]

Recently they loaded up on the Italian giallo/horror category, a few of which are worth a watch for real.

[@lucamckenn5932]

Tubi and Peacock have my favorite obscure 80s anime. Peacock in particular has the first iteration of bubblegum crisis: bladerunner meets cop drama meets sailor moon the trifecta combination nobody wanted but works. Tubi has angel cop, much much darker show but still very good adult animated show.

[@fraserihle4847]

Yeah reminds me of dusty old vhs rental places with all kinds of weird obscure trashy movies to explore

[@AloisWeimar]

as apposed to all that shit still on Netflix, Ancient Scampocalypse

[@Eamonshort1]

Man, never heard of tubi before this video, and maybe I'm just a masochist but your description there really sold me

[@Geothedude]

I actually like Rich’s idea for ‘Noah’s Shark’. I imagine Noah going “What the hell happened to my two unicorns?”.

[@mandowarrior123]

More tragic if it only eats one.

[@petrolak]

Unicorn has to resort to fucking a hippo. That's how rhino came to be.

[@drgetwrekt869]

the unicorns are still hiding in the forest underwater

[@brettfromla4055]

They could create animals, like Wes Anderson did for The Aquatic Life with Steve Zissou.

[@leisti]

I've seen a New York Times crossword hint for NOAH that was "He should have swatted those two flies."

[@saqibrehman3930]

the fact that ouija shark is not a joke pulled out of their ass but an actual movie genuinely shocked and frightened me more than some actual horror movies

[@orfeo793]

I can assure you it started as a joke pulled out of someone's ass, like half the horror films out there lmao

[@Ghoulicus]

I wish they made a movie called the luigi shark, now that would be a good film

[@seid3366]

Certainly was a shocker when GBorBB did it

[@vinesauce]

I was convinced they filmed that footage at first

[@mrelephant2283]

I was utterly bewildered

[@haze5420]

Mike will turn any episode into a lecture on the legitimacy of ghosts and I love it

[@OhNoJoshEdits]

The legitimacy of *Zac Baggins*

[@MusicVersa]

Not ghosts. "Ghoosts".

[@seanbirch]

He has never said anything that legitimises them.

[@17thshard62]

So much ghost stuff is literally just carbon monoxide poisoning though. I'm pretty sure that's the main thing people learned from that ghost hunter home improvement show

[@Huggbees]

Out of all of these I think Amityville in Space is the most excitingly stupid.

[@0Synergy]

We need more "X" in space movies.

[@alexanderdumas870]

Andrew, you will never be Rich Evans

[@necromech_]

i don't know, Ouija Shark presents some decent competition

[@connorhogg8866]

Are you kidding? Accidental Exorcist ftw

[@jameswells9403]

In should be called Amityville....in SPACEEEEE!

[@StevenRichter]

The Shark Exorcism of Amityville: Conjuring

[@MonsieurBig]

In space

[@shad0wdan3er]

Quija

[@htpkey]

Don't give them any ideas! You should atleast get paid for it.

[@Guardison]

My favorite part of any RLM video is when there's just a 5 second pause for Mike to take out a piece of paper.

[@7thStreetProductions]

My name is Calvin McCarthy, I directed “conjuring the beyond” and “Amityville Poltergeist” 😅 Thanks for including me in your video❤🎉

[@jackwhite2654]

I love stuff like this. Geezer teasers, Elsagate, Roger Corman, modern Disney. It's always so disgustingly fascinating when people try to churn out art on an assembly line.

[@Godfredozila]

i guess the difference here is that a wide majority of these movies are completely unrelated and are just bottom of the barrel ideas scraped together by many different people who just want to get like 200 entire dollars, as opposed to modern disney burning billions of dollars to maximize barrel bottom scraping efficiency. it's less of an assembly line and more of a race to the bottom in terms of effort

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

You are going to be dissatisfied with the future

[@chriswest6988]

This impulse is what currently scares me about AI. Could AI eventually replace creative writers? Hard for me to say with current information, and I'm skeptical of anyone who says they know for sure. Could AI replace the garbage writing of scam properties designed to trick people with their titles? Oh yeah, any day now if it isn't happening already. Cobbling together the finished product out of stock video, and promoting it via fake reviews and AI ad copy seem within reach soon too. And each individual one of these things probably won't be convincing if you're paying any attention at all, but collectively they could bury the good faith production you're looking for or trying to promote.

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

@@chriswest6988 long answer... No short answer.... Yes

[@n3onkn1ght]

You're forgetting it all started with Jack & Jill, a decade ago.

[@TheElectroNuke]

This is a format that deserves to stick. Between Rich calling Shark Side of the Moon "comfortably dumb", the trailer that almost makes Exorcism at 60,000 Feet look unironically hilarious, and Jay's reaction to the title of Amityville Backpack, the material they get out of terrible modern film trends would make for some great future episodes.

[@FreshGarbage0]

I only noticed till near the very end that a lot of the amityville posters had a parody tag line of the first movie and I think that's awesome.

[@SandraNLN]

I want to watch exorcism at 60,000ft now because it looked like satire, or at the very least looked like it would be interesting garbage good for a laugh with friends. I mean, c'mon that kid was clearly played by a 30 y/o with piercings but was wearing a propeller hat? gorgeous

[@ZoeTowne]

Hey, I'm in Ouija Shark and I just have to say it was absolutely wild to see my face in your preview gif on the trending page 🤣I now have cred with my friends for being mentioned in a RLM video!

[@HotDogBunss]

The fact that you've managed to avoid becoming stale after over a decade of this is amazing

[@adamlouis3725]

i dont know, im pretty over the old man voice reviews

[@terig5584]

@@adamlouis3725and they haven’t done one since Star Trek Picard hurt Mike deeply. That’s a special circumstance.

[@caffeinated4671]

@@adamlouis3725 That's probably why Mike barely makes them anymore. Can't make money or survive on a single note, no matter how good it is; it always gets boring after a while and people move on to a different program or media to consume.

[@MrBiscuits9000]

@@caffeinated4671 I dunno man. Uncle Roger seems to be doing fine.

[@wullahblack6452]

@@MrBiscuits9000 And the most irritating thing is he doesn't talk or act like that. I know a bunch of old asian men who do!

[@weirdcoincollection]

They made the correct choice having Rich Evans as the thumbnail image, prompting me to click this immediately.

[@mykelp]

richbait

[@bran8935]

actually so true

[@jean-paulgagnon8479]

Whenever Mike reaches behind himself and pulls out printed notes I know gold is about to flow onto my screen.

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

Like a shower? Of gold?

[@The_Gallowglass]

10:18 That's the most real laugh I've ever heard Jay do. Thank you Rich Evans. You've EnRICHed our lives again.

[@spacebees86]

I love that this video is "Mike and Jay learn some stuff to tell Rich for his reactions". This is my favourite game show

[@Spartan300001]

One of my favorite bits here - the poster for the Amityville Terror is actially a photoshop of an artist's render of the French Disneyland Haunted Mansion. I only know this because I've been looking for a larger resolution version of it for a while, because it used to be a nice desktop, but it was from like 2008. So there's several layers of copyright disregard going on here.

[@chelsikern2234]

A lot of those (Noah's Shark, Amityville Island, Amityville Death House, Shark Encounters of the Third Kind) are written by John Oak Dalton!!! He's a super fun guy to work with and he loves talking about movies. He would be an awesome guest on your show!!!

[@johnoakdalton1966]

Thank you! I hung out with these guys back in their ramen noodle days 20 years ago but am no longer cool enough to be around them!

[@ghostbreakergaming]

threads like this is why i keep coming back to RLM

[@drpibisback7680]

​@@johnoakdalton1966RLM is too cool for nobody, ask them! I'd love to get an "inside the watchbait" followup.

[@BennyBennyBennett]

@@drpibisback7680agreed!!

[@TheBBQify]

What was it like working with mark polonia?

[@tomjolliffescreenwriter]

I'm pleased to see a couple of the films I wrote pop up in the list. Amityville Witches. Ironically the Amityville thing was an afterthought by the producers half way through writing the film. Then it was shot in a remote area in England and didn't look at all like it was Amityville and had absolutely nothing to do with amityville. I actually enjoyed this one. It's not remotely scary and sort of goofy but there's a certain charm to it and I love the cast. The other was Ouija Hosts which was a faux, semi improvised ghosthunter show/mocku. That was shite. Again, the Ouija part was a total after thought. The original title was just Ghost Hosts (the name of the fictional 'show'). That's my second time on RLM now (Mega Lightning was featured on a Best of the Worst).

[@josephmayfield945]

Where does the money come from for these films? I’m always curious how people finance these things.

[@talleyman2744]

Just curious how did you manage to land writing gigs for these kinds of movies? Were you recruited by some agency or the like to write them, or did you know the directors or something?

[@tomjolliffescreenwriter]

@@josephmayfield945 some of those are crowdfunded. A lot are financed by distributors who pay a production company to make the film and then they release it or sell it on to other territories. Really low budget. Amityville Witches probably cost $30k tops. Many of the companies make dozens of films a year at small profits, to make a bigger overall profit.

[@tomjolliffescreenwriter]

@@talleyman2744 it all started by applying for a job on a film website (Mandy). From then it's mostly been repeated gigs with the same producers, getting recommended by them to other producers. I started on really small films 10-20k budgets, and have worked on films now with 4-5 million budgets and name actors. But, stuff like Amityville Witches were experience and gave me a track record of writing released films that helped me get the better gigs. The number one thing for me has always been, "will this film be fun to write?" If I know it will, then I'll do it. Though I'm more selective now. Lol.

[@mrelephant2283]

@@tomjolliffescreenwriter Fuckin' rad, dude

[@setlerking]

“Always knew but never confronted” is a genuinely useful phrase that will now enter my day to day use

[@Roboshi2007]

The funny thing about the Ouija board is that it's original purpose was not to contact the dead or ghosts etc, it was to contact yourself, it was to ask your subconscious questions about your true self. The idea was by have a group of people together you would push it around and ask innermost questions and get those answers, it was really a game about what your friends really thought about you. Then of course it got taken over by the spiritual movements and people were like "hey lets use this table of letters to ask ghosts stuff" and the ghost scamming began.

[@pureevil9496]

That is far more interesting. I wouldn't mind playing with a board in a group now.

[@PodreyJenkin138]

This this true?

[@LeeONardo]

I always enjoy the Penn and Teller episode where to show simply how bull it all is, they had blindfolded people using it and then spun the board the other way and the people kept moving to the original positions.

[@psykomancer4420]

That makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE. I always wonder why the fuck the ghost needed me to shove around a wood chip to send me a message.

[@alonsorojas3829]

Amazed on how they'll do anything to avoid going to the movie theater.

[@nicholasvinen]

With the quality of today's movies, can you blame them?

[@lucamckenn5932]

Have you seen the latest -insert studio that cannibalizes other studios here movie? Or how about corporate product 8? Me personally I think they jumped the shark at 2 but hey ha ha I like bright colors and funny sounds on my big screen. 😄

[@theangryholmesian4556]

​@@nicholasvinenSo I take it you haven't seen Oppenheimer? Or EEAAO? Or Parasite? You know...one of the countless non Disney/non Marvel films that are released every year in theaters...

[@moonverine]

27:25 "Just film it at night." This is just one example of why Rich Evans is a national treasure.

[@anachronologist2017]

10:10 Rich Evans rebounding the laugh onto Jay is the most wholesome and funny thing I've seen in quite a while

[@crakhaed]

FTW

[@alanblanks]

The amount of laughter Rich Evans expels in this video is inversely proportional to the amount of sorrow he'd experience if he was forced to watch these. Great video. Made my day.

[@DeflatingAtheism]

Nothing gives Rich more joy than a bad action or sci-fi movie. When Rich was watching the Night Court reboot, however, he might as well been watching a puppy’s funeral.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

Fun fact: the Ouija board got its name from a mistake over language, with Oui begin french for Yes, and Ja being Swedish for Rich Evans.

[@murphy7801]

Yes yes

[@elimgarak4667]

Can we all just give Rich Evans some love, that Pink Floyd joke was actually pretty damn great, and it even landed pretty swell. NOT ONE FLUB! What a legend!

[@FutureDeep]

He's contractually obligated to include at least one zinger or else Mike will keep in all of his flubs.

[@leisti]

That was a genuinely funny joke. Kudos!

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

"Comfortably Dumb" as a response to "Shark Side of the Moon" shows incredible levels of cleverness at breakneck cognitive speed... (The song "Comfortably Numb" wasn't even on the Album _Dark Side of the Moon._ He had to make the Pink Floyd connection, then think of a song title, then figure out which one was a good rhyming insult to a rhyming movie title.) Normally I'd like to shit on Rich Evans, but here, one can only hand it to his wit.

[@bluestiffy1]

it's a nostalgia critic joke

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

@@bluestiffy1 Whether or not Rich saw said video, it was still funny. If he saw the NC video, it's less clever, but still funny. As a rule, if it's funny, say it.

[@MonkeyWrenchGaming]

It’s nice that you can loan out a Rich Evans AI during the strike

[@mykem3334]

I love Rich’s “comfortably dumb” joke but may love Jay’s reaction to it even more

[@weegee_hates_the_blind]

The only void is my life for clicking on this video mere seconds after it uploaded.

[@monk_moshpit]

Yea :)

[@JohnSmith-jv7mv]

You and me both.

[@moviegumshoes]

You and I both… but I’m even at a family reunion and dipped out to watch this video.

[@christopherdavid2363]

Brother, I am here with you.

[@facundovergara8083]

Same

[@larrylaffer3246]

Texorcism sounds like the perfect idea for a King Of The Hill horror project. Dale Gribble would obviously be the lead.

[@DITDS]

cue the iconic Hank Hill yell....

[@KR-hg8be]

Damn it zombobby

[@larrylaffer3246]

@@KR-hg8be How many times have I told you to stop eating people's 🧠!?

[@KR-hg8be]

@larrylaffer3246 I'm imagining hank hill armed with a comically oversized propane flamethrower he built out of bbqs and his Japanese brother in a anime robot suit fighting hoards of demons with the help of zombobby and the ghost of cotton hills knees.

[@playingmusiconmars]

Boomhauer is the first one to see it - you know those dang demons and stuff mane, they got Bobby cussin and yellin and stuff I tell ya hwat

[@TroubledTrooper]

I like how many directors, writers, and other ppl who worked on these are showing up in the comments on THIS specific video. We got some great artists in the RLM audience.

[@jeffreywilliams3421]

You know shits about to get real when Mike reaches into his back pocket and you hear the paper crinkling

[@stevenjackson9028]

​@sciencebear1645I think it all Depends.

[@Kiruklee]

"Sand Shark, Land Shark, Sky Shark, House Shark" is the most Seussian thing that Mike has ever said.

[@mitchellhouser1572]

Mike's video descriptions are truly works out art

[@ARMADILLOARMADILLO]

Rich's laugh rightly gets a lot of praise. But this was the first time I realized how much I love it when Rich makes Jay laugh! God this video is funny

[@TerrenceNowicki]

You know an RLM video is about to go next-level when Mike pulls out some crumpled sheets of paper.

[@Agcpm]

Love when Mikes just pulls out a list printed on paper, that's when we know its gonna be an awesome episode

[@ExplorerFam]

Mike pronouncing SHARKANSAS [ shahrk-kuhn-saw ] as Shark-ansas made me smile. Especially how he convinces Rich that this is the correct title pronunciation.

[@tekkenespie]

I definitely read it as Sh-Arkansas, im confident this is the title.

[@TheBoardGamer]

His favorite pastime is gaslighting the elderly

[@Myndir]

How could a shark get to Kansas? It's landlocked.

[@joachimb5721]

@@tekkenespie Of course. It's a pun, and as you can see from the two different fonts, they are adding "SH" to "Arkansas" to create "Sharkansas", which means it obviously has nothing to do with Kansas.

[@HamazuraGOD]

I waited with bated breath for 27 minutes for the mention of Amityville Vibrator and I'm so not disappointed. Thank you RedLetterMedia for heightening attention to Amityville Vibrator

[@onlynameMrBlank]

I always love when Mike pulls out a piece of paper and loudly crinkles it next to the mic.

[@krlosz1996]

I have to commend Rich Evans for actually thinking of a good joke and then not fumbling the bag on the delivery at 10:18, he's becoming more powerful by the day.

[@BurgerWShack]

All I'm seeing is just even more proof that Tubi is just the best streaming service ever. Seriously, they're awesome. I love the sifting through a bargain bin feeling you get from using them. Videos like this wouldn't be possible without Tubi.

[@josephmayfield945]

Commercials are increasing though. Getting harder to watch. If they would just offer a pay service. I would easily pay ten bucks a month to have access to all those old 80’s horror films they have.

[@BurgerWShack]

@@josephmayfield945 that's totally fair. At the very least, they could time the ads better. My dad has been watching the Miami Vice show on there and he says the ads aren't even placed like they were when the show would've first aired. To give them credit, I do appreciate that they tell you how many ads you're going to see. It's nice, even if I'd prefer being told the duration of all the ads.

[@ballacaust]

Rich's "Comfortably Dumb" joke was great, and even better that Mike follows it up with "FTW" -- Never change. Never Change.

[@sarahluria7113]

I feel like one genre rampant with this is romantic comedies. the amount of trite little phrases that can be turned into puns with two people standing back to back smirking is infinite

[@TerrenceNowicki]

That and Christmas movies is basically the entire basis of the Hallmark Channel.

[@The_Andyman]

“There’s a lot of stuff that fits in this hole” - Mike Stoklasa, 2023.

[@OhNoJoshEdits]

“There’s a lot of stuff that fits in this hole” - Mike Stoklasa *[on Rich Evans]* 2023

[@andrewgarrison7485]

I didn't want this episode to end

[@johnpendergast758]

Rich Evans is a comic genius. I love his arc in this web series.

[@angeldelgado7120]

I don't know if this gives me hope that anyone, (including me) can make a film, or if it depresses me that anyone (including me) can make a film.

[@drpibisback7680]

Sturgeon's Law - 90% of all creative works are bad.

[@DK33O]

A lot of them are just frustrating because their names and premises sound like they could result in hilarious schlock if some effort was put into it. Instead it's always unfunny, painfully boring trash shot on a camcorder in a living room. Wasted potential.

[@MrDootDali]

I cannot stop laughing at your title suggestion: "Texorcism".Dude...GENIIUS! I have always contended that the shortest pitch session in Hollywood history consisted of just one word; "Sharknado" which resulted in an immediate green light for the project! Well, "Texorcism" could rival that record! Both words consist of nine letters so it is a roll of the dice as to which would be fastest. ... Come on! "Texorcism" would absolutely be green-lit! It would go down like this: Producer to writer: "Ok kid, I will give you 3 minutes to pitch me an idea, then you get the hell outta my office." Writer: "Thank you, but it won't take 3 minutes." Producer: (perplexed) "Very well, 30 seconds then." Writer: "Gratitude, but still entirely more time than I need." Producer: "My, aren't we confident today! Ok then, begin!" Writer: "Texorcism" Producer: "We begin shooting NOW!"

[@AstronomicEdits]

I love this genre of video where Mike reads a list of funny sounding things and Rich and Jay laugh at said things.

[@rhetiq9989]

Mike still using a bunch of papers to read out his list the old fashioned way instead of just writing them down on his phone is just the most elderly thing ever I love it

[@genewitch]

glasses tend to reflect studio lights...

[@johnnypopstar]

He'll just start laughing at himself soon enough

[@SadeN_0]

It's not elderly, it's cinematic

[@trumulletman]

Can't do the rustling the pages gag on your phone though

[@fettfan91]

The crew discussing the depravity of the B-movie industry amidst a strike in Hollywood is both timely and hilarious.

[@98JSB]

Soon all streaming services will be tubi

[@Uninspiredradio]

I like how at no time has Mike ever felt the need to tell Rich what they’re filming until cameras are rolling

[@fishblades]

Jay is really flaunting that beautiful full head of hair in front of those 2 old guys. This is my favorite new RLM show. Have Rich show up with no idea what's going on and make him laugh.

[@brettmcknight4677]

Rich's laugh is a joy and a treasure. Please more episodes where Mike and Jay just make Rich laugh.

[@JimmyDThing]

The sound of Mike's notes now gets me so excited and also gives me ASMR.

[@noneya3635]

Rich Evans Pink Floyd joke is fuqing legendary and Mike didn't even crack a grin. He is truly lost. Also, we need a gif of Rich Evans cheering "YAAAAAAY!" to be played in hospices everywhere to ease the passing of the elderly.

[@paulinegallagher7821]

lol this is probably the only time I will ever think of old people in a hospice and start laughing.

[@zutena5090]

mike's ghost adventures obsessions gives me life. its such a spectacle that goes largely ignored now

[@8BitFun]

We always love a new RLM sub-series

[@RandyHawkeye]

The immediate and withering contempt expressed here for both the Lutzes and the Warrens warms my heart greatly. Somewhere in hell's Department of Ironic Punishments, the four of them are strapped down a la Clockwork Orange and forced to watch and endless loop of Amityville Horror, Conjuring, and Paranormal Activity movies.

[@HorrorHermitofHell]

So much contempt for the Warren's they don't even get her name right! 😂

[@swordbro2676]

Shark Side of the Moon directly into "That title is Comfortably Dumb" sent me rolling. Excellent joke.

[@christraven]

I think my favorite part of all these titles is the fact that "Sharks of the Corn" was based on an original story by the world-famous author Steven Kang.

[@ChalkiePerfect]

Didn’t he also write The Shawshark Redemption?

[@lordvlygar2963]

Decker Shado's review of it is fantastic!

[@PupGamer]

@@ChalkiePerfect No, but he did write Sawshark: Redemption

[@ChalkiePerfect]

@@PupGamer That’s what I was thinking of. Thanks.

[@mrlaz9011]

and also shark sematery

[@Jeffmetal42]

I have a really strong feeling that this is one of the ways criminals wash money these days.

[@PaperSeraglio]

Yeah, if you ever have $79.50 you need to launder, there you go. Make a Tubi movie.

[@Jeffmetal42]

​@@PaperSeragliowell, yea, if you aren't clever about it.

[@danielaviladeoliveirasilva1872]

Too much paper trail and too many people. Use the art market.

[@henrycapuano7143]

The amount of time I would be willing to spend just listening to Mike list things is insane.

[@A_Toastonawhiteplate]

0:00 Intro and Premise 9:37 Things with Shark 13:46 Exorcist/Excorcisms 16:53 Amityville Stuff

[@Seantendo]

About 20-ish Octobers ago my family drove up to Amityville to see the house because we just saw the first 2 movies on TV and we lived about a half hour away. It was the only house in that neighborhood that had zero Halloween decorations. I guess when you live in the Amityville house you don't need to make it look spoopy.

[@thomasnaporano9822]

This is just a beautiful symphony of Mike playing Rich’s laugh over and over.

[@avebave6550]

We need one of these, but Mike brings in way too many guests, even McCauley Culkin, and everyone awkwardly listens to him read off brand names for Japanese power cords

[@phillyphakename1255]

Oh my gosh I would love to see McCauley Culkin read the names of architecture firms or something.

[@shamboholic]

I say the Japanese names of Transformers and robot-centric shows, there’s some glorious material there

[@jacobg2662]

Love watching jay continue his transformation into Obi Wan

[@MrCecil]

Rich should be a studio executive. He made Noah's Shark an amazing idea in two seconds.

[@hectoraccented5312]

That's exactly the opposite of what a studio executive does!

[@lucamckenn5932]

Keep in mind rich is more in tune with what a 'good' movie is than like 80-90% of people actually making movies. Lots of people riding by the seat of their pants these days.

[@Enthusiasticguy]

I've been watching you guys for the past decade, all i want to say is keep up the awesome work, love you guys.

[@Revelian1982]

These guys are different to other KZbinrs, to my mind, because it just feels like hanging out with my best friends. I love these guys.

[@Brian-gw5hg]

...more like hanging out at the retirement home, but yeah I'm right there with ya

[@anthonyshoop575]

Dear god the video description is a masterpiece that could only be conjured from the brain of a madman.

[@aleenisley]

Hey! Im the costar of Amityville Christmas Vacation! I adore RLM and its so cool to see a second movie of ours make the show! We just won the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Amityville Movie!

[@Bisaju2]

Alligator Is on tubi. The art makes it look modern but it is actually a great 1980 giant alligator loose in Chicago starring the late Robert Forrester and directed by Lewis Teague. Worth watching and buying in my opinion. I am one of those that has been watching it since a kid. Thanks Leonard maltin.