Half in the Bag Episode 30: Zaat

[@Nora-fg4yc]

this episode is the peak of Mike's sexiness. a smoking, hamburger eating bad boy.

[@SkylerDK]

Meh, Rich Evans is sexier.

[@koroconnell]

@@SkylerDK we need a wet t-shirt contest, it's the only way

[@SkylerDK]

@@koroconnell Agreed. All in favor say, "Aye".

[@metalbrainmextrememetalent6810]

Yep, it was all down hill from here.

[@bertbargo7162]

Man's gotta eat, Julian

[@oculiocto3185]

The first unofficial BotW Spotlight episode.

[@deyedrah]

I’m really glad I managed to find the first ever KZbin video.

[@Timbobjr]

Me at the Zaat

[@OppirompaMiDotCom]

Meta at the Zaat

[@rockyseverino9230]

Zaat at the zoo!

[@Acidlib]

*blip video

[@dcxss8961]

This might be the best comment i’ve ever seen

[@luckyspurs]

Mike 5 years later: "have we ever discussed Zaat". Jay: "we did a whole Half in the Bag about it".

[@Bonkatsu12]

Link?

[@madalinam6183]

@@Bonkatsu12 I think it's in their Rawhead Rex and Neil Breen episode

[@madalinam6183]

Actually, I remember Jack in the conversation so it had to be a BotW. I'm so happy to have a reason to pay attention to episodes. Usually they play in the background.

[@madalinam6183]

@@Bonkatsu12 correction: it's in Plinketto #2. Sometime after minute 20.

[@madmanpecos]

his dementia is setting in

[@NormalLee67]

Is this the prequel to The Shape of Water?

[@probablyelvyorsomething9383]

Yes

[@rinnhart]

It's replacing the shape of water.

[@dubuyajay9964]

Nah, Creature From The Black Lagoon is.

[@christopherlowery3797]

Dubuya Jay Ima nut either way 🤷🏻‍♂️👌

[@WarioPuz0]

Possibly

[@Edax_Royeaux]

It's a shame this movie never made it on Best of the Worst. We missed out on some great reactions from everybody while the movie is playing.

[@milton7763]

You mean Rich screaming incessantly like a little school girl as his way of laughing

[@cacophonousantiquarian8803]

@@milton7763 that's my favorite part

[@Edax_Royeaux]

@@kammerdude4928 Didn't they watch Santa Claus? And Invasion USA? And The Incredible Melting Man? And Space Mutiny? And Future War?

[@jgmweston]

The 'Mike and Jay Are Homeless' storyline is my favorite bit from the series, culminating (for me) at them hallucinating that they're back in the house and then slowly climbing into garbage bins and hunkering down.

[@MrOquedo]

+Joshua Weston Do you know at what movie review do that storyline begins?

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Mike talking about how he helped to kill some kids made me...laugh i guess?

[@loricerny5922]

Joshua Weston. Uh, Hello... spoiler!

[@GdotHost]

19:53 The way Zaat has to swing the door open because he can't actually see it is amazing. Also, whatever he's carrying looks like a thermos and something about his posture makes it look he's about to walk through that door and clock in for work.

[@twoidiots9844]

The birth of Jay's beautiful facial hair. What a handsome man-child he is.

[@ZPM7]

You fuck that room up, Zaat.

[@concrete_dog]

It's very telling of this channel's audience that this episode has significantly more views than the Avengers episode :D

[@cookiesontoast9981]

I'd honestly rather watch this movie any day over any Avengers.

[@williamskay109]

This is at least far more interesting than the Avengers

[@nathanbirkley3195]

Avengers sux buttx

[@KeatonPrime]

*Insert hipster comment about how the Avengers is stinky poo butt

[@aaronwebb1548]

@Padraic Ryan It's been that way for decades. God help you if you enjoy good beer or black coffee.

[@CatbushAndLudicrous]

I would do anything for love, but I won't do zaat

[@Udgrasil13]

Fantastic. Just outstanding =)

[@matthewjoyner1595]

Wow. Incredible

[@mann561]

amazing, truly

[@BeeBumper]

Lame

[@blastradius7193]

I see what you did there!

[@apcfire]

"This is one of the top movies of constantly shouting questions at the movie" Then they watched Double Down.

[@dubuyajay9964]

Link to them watching "Double Down" please?

[@Naito346]

I feel like Ryan's Babe was critical mass of yelling questions at the screen

[@darkzeke200x]

@@Naito346 I thought the exact same thing lol

[@tinyturnip7676]

Zaat is obviously a social commentary on the meaning of life itself. It is clear by his entrancing gaze that Zaat is peering deep into the cosmos, eternity, and the soul. It all comes together in the end. Like poetry. See, it rhymes.

[@jiub9]

+Joe Jr. There are so many things going on in this post.

[@crimsondynamo615]

It’s so dense!

[@ogolthorp]

I like how the sheriff is cleaning his gun while pointing it DIRECTLY AT HIS FACE.

[@factotums]

This movie was genuinely revolutionary in what I thought a bad movie could be. This movie needs a larger cultural presence and credit for achievements in bad cinema.

[@IamPinhead]

Mike trying to eat a sad McDonald's cheeseburger while keeping a cigarette in his mouth is an appropriate summary of 2017.

[@griffdaddykane]

IamPinhead and 2018

[@Ghost-rb5tg]

Very relatable. Also 2019. Is this the End?

[@theguardian8317]

Hello 2020 :(

[@kemprowland5136]

this was filmed in 2012 but ok...

[@MickHaggs]

Wait until you get to 2020

[@ianfavreau9776]

I miss when they looked into the camera. Made me feel like I was a part of it.

[@JValor88]

Watching this in April, 2020. The intro is now my every day

[@Intestine_Ballin-ism]

Based. Greetings from June

[@noahgrubbs6954]

@@Intestine_Ballin-ism greetings from July. It hasn't gotten any better

[@Jishere232]

@@noahgrubbs6954 greetings from August, shit still sucks and somehow I'm even more broke now

[@KristinaPup]

@@Jishere232 greetings from september. it's never going to end

[@Rickbison]

October and even more broke.

[@felicityc]

The 7 dropping at 1:14 will go in cinema history as comparable to the pizza on the roof in breaking bad

[@IrisCorven]

Utterly underappreciated moment.

[@steffjones6056]

MST3K riffed on this movie too, but for some reason it was called "The Blood Waters of Dr. Z." Classic episode.

[@paulcallahan7727]

Oh dr.z wont you love me

[@ultimatecorgi3392]

Serious question: How much time does it take you guys to fill the entire set with beer bottles? Do you ever have a situation where you have to cross the set, and wind up accidentally knocking over a dozen bottles before you meant to? I imagine that having so much glass in a single room could really mess up some takes.

[@twag86]

Ultimate Corgi they live in Wisconsin. That’s an afternoon of drinking for two guys around here

[@boardgamebrawl]

"Check that out will ya, hon."

[@jordonbrewer1231]

Read this literally as soon as that line was said.

[@TheFinalBryan]

Prior to use in the Buffy ep, all or parts of catfishman costume appeared in 72 different episode's of the original run of Doctor Who.

[@MrJakeKale]

Poor Zaat, going to all that effort for love. If only he had lived nowadays, online dating would be perfect for him. COS HE'S A CATFISH. GEDDIT?

[@dubuyajay9964]

I am embarrassed to ask this, but what does that mean? Is this a new term for phishing?

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@frown2462 Ok. Ty.

[@inthedeadhours]

He could go on plenty of fish

[@NoMoreNever]

My sincere thanks to RLM for pointing me towards this gem in bad movie history. Everyone should see Zaat at least once, especially for how many times the guy in the suit trips during the movie!

[@TheGameGrinder]

My Dad would probably really enjoy this movie. He's more into 40s-60s shlock monster movies, but this fits pretty damn well.

[@RaymLovesEggs]

...So that's why Jay always walks that way when exiting a scene.

[@TheFinalBryan]

Zatt was played by John 'Hannibal' Smith in one of his early monster roles while on the run from the military for a crime he and A team he was a member of did not commit.

[@kevinwr7093]

Sheriff: "Walking catfish? That sounds like something ol' Doc Leopold would do" Dolemite: "Bitch! Are you fo' real!?"

[@HughMansonMD]

I thought this was cool: Zaat, Man-Thing, and Swamp Thing were all created in 1971, with Zaat actually being the first. Zaat was released in January, Man-Thing appeared in Savage Tales #1 in May, and Swamp Thing in House of Secrets #92 in July.

[@Da_ComputerMonster]

_By the Green..._ …All those debates of who came first... …But it was NEITHER both, It was *ZAAT* It was *ALWAYS ZAAT*

[@HughMansonMD]

@@Da_ComputerMonster always has been always will be.. Soon I'll have my thesis on how Alan Moores' entire Swamp Thing run was really just the pharmacy scene stretched out for 4 years...

[@OldTomParr152]

In case anyone is interested, the song playing in the background is the opening theme from John Water's Female Trouble.

[@WillyPhonken]

I can't believe this was the first video on KZbin.

[@Scanlaid]

This is my favorite video intro they have ever done. The missing cheeseburger and smoking slays me. The RLM boys' scumbag shtick reminds me of the Young Ones a lot

[@OhMeGaGS]

I am absolutely convinced this set is made out of titanium and nothing can destroy it

[@IgnatiusThorogood]

This is very useful for me, 'cause I'm seeing all the bits that were cut from the MST3k version; the bit with the hippies, for instance.

[@Ozepyon09]

10:47 "He says, "Well shit now I'm a catfishman."" Out of context this is amusing

[@Plasmaggie]

My favorite KZbin video, "Me at the Zaat"

[@CybershamanX]

(1:12) I love how the number seven falls off when Mike's beer hit the "brick" wall. Now I have to check more recent videos to see if it's still missing. Sort of like the knife that magically stuck in the wall when Mike chucked it around this time. (Sadly, I think finally the knife quietly left the scene fairly recently. 😞) I love these little continuity gags. 😉

[@gumbiman3350]

Plinkett's place looks like a set from the Young Ones.

[@gumbiman3350]

mysterywhiteboy72 Rick was the one to most commonly say that, plus the actor was named Rik, not the character.

[@gumbiman3350]

Lel.

[@gumbiman3350]

You mean "Prick"

[@gumbiman3350]

Dana Yumikun What?

[@MrManbehindthesun666]

same here, lolz

[@TheShaffers3]

Holy Shit! This the best the Half in the Bag intro I've ever seen, along with sloppy wardrobe and lighting this aesthetic you guys need to start doing again

[@phillanderson434]

Hey friend from 2 years ago have I got good news for you

[@Erik-ho7hi]

Everything about Mike's outfit was amazing.

[@FreakyLynx]

I remember reading a horror comic years ago that had a story very much like Zaat (not sure if one was based off the other). Scientist decides the planet is going to be flooded sometime in the future so comes up with a plan to make fish-people. Injects himself full of the stuff, it combines a lot of different fish but one of the key samples comes from salmon (the comic states it's the only fish that can live in fresh and seawater). As he's in his tub transforming the temperature changes, when he emerges he gets an urge to go into the water and he ends up spawning before dying. Epilogue explains that some fish change gender depending on the weather, so apparently this guy changed to a female and gave birth to a lot of little fish people. Was a weird story, and probably wasn't more than five or six pages long in the comic, but some of the images of Zaat are very reminiscent.

[@qeqeqeq2305]

Thumps up if RedLetterMedia sent you here

[@roach9397]

Same here! I love their channel!

[@woodlefoof2]

Qeqe Qeq hey look guy, Just because some obscure KZbin channel talked about this review of zaat doesn't mean everyone immediately went to go watch it because it was mentioned

[@qeqeqeq2305]

woodlefoof2 I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

[@roach9397]

Qeqe Qeq I think he's drunk or something.

[@qeqeqeq2305]

August West Dobvle fj jgjeo gjgjgjgj

[@AHersheyHere]

18:20 Sheriff pulls gun but, decides to drop it and get in hand-to-hand fight instead.

[@hsfhfejtpo5709]

This is such a great show. I’m so glad TV doesn’t exist anymore so this could replace it. (not sarcasm, completely genuine) Thank you, RLM!!!

[@pavo1394]

MST3K has this movie as Blood Waters of Dr. Z

[@cammysixx]

I was wondering why it seemed so familiar. Thanks!

[@FleshNFaith]

@@cammysixx I thought so too, the quality of the version they watched was very different, but I knew I had seen it before.

[@Flike245]

Does this version have the weird, Eddie Vedder sounding song?

[@pavo1394]

@@Flike245 Yes!

[@Modenut]

That punching sound when Mike knocks the lamp down gets me every fucking time.

[@lucaschamberlain253]

I love the opening segment of this episode. Also jay's Orfordville shirt.

[@meepo262]

I wonder if there’s a correlation between me loving these videos and my apartment actually looking like that set.

[@animeawesometacular5265]

Mike is such an alcoholic he forget he ever made this episode.

[@colonelwest5443]

Prettt cool that this is the first video ever uploaded to KZbin.

[@corynnmoody4211]

I have noticed in this video and several others that Mike’s right ear is pointed like Spock... I first noticed it in a half in the bag about Star Trek so I thought it was part of a gag but now I am wondering if mike actually has pointed ears. If anyone knows anything, please help.

[@jmn327]

"Sargassum...the weed of deceit."

[@MortonGoldthwait]

That's what I smoke.

[@mahrimen]

About seeing the boom mic...the same thing happened to my wife and I when we saw Red Dragon in the theater. Scenes that were supposed to be tense had a mic moving back and forth the actors as they spoke. The whole theater was laughing. It made the movie much more enjoyable. Never knew until now it was the projectionists fault?

[@andrewtc95]

One of my favorite Half in the Bags.

[@AxioProductions]

Zaat is a rejected child of Gredo and the grinch

[@eugener9706]

Good post three years later! Hope you’re still alive!

[@atom_gray]

then his McClunky grew three times it's size...

[@iggypopped]

" I tripped over a mound yesterday" Mike turns " Oh those were dead children..."

[@trenchardjj]

Of course, real fans will recognise Jay is wearing his costume from Feeding Frenzie.

[@greatsea1457]

How does this not have 1 million yet. KZbin has failed.

[@Doingdumb]

Getting close here in 2024

[@deardoilydudette5588]

I've never auditioned for a part in a film but now when I DO I'm going to put 'fat chick who gets dunked into weird liquid to check if I'll die before adding the hot one' to my typecast.

[@milton7763]

“Who’s ZAAT?” “ZAAT’s dead honey, ZAAT’s dead”

[@DVAcme]

Seeing Mike eat that week-old cheeseburger while smoking genuinely made me nauseous. What a trooper for comedy, lol.

[@555Tbird]

Don't inject antifreeze into your arm, kids.

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

If only I'd seen this advice when you posted it...

[@phillanderson434]

Hello comment from 4 years ago let me tell you what the president told us to do

[@555Tbird]

@@phillanderson434 Wow

[@jrlaps521]

This aged amazingly

[@q1q2q23]

@@jrlaps521 Uncanny.

[@koanikal]

When I watched American Gangster in the theater many years ago, there were scenes where the boom mic just hung out in the frame since the projectionist didn't matte it correctly. Apparently film projection is a lost art.

[@michaeljamesmccabe]

I'm from Minnesota, but I've been to Silver Springs, FL (where Zaat was filmed), and through Ocala, FL (where there is a nutty hippie population out in the woods), so I kinda understand where Zaat is coming from in an odd way. It doesn't "make sense", but it sorta makes sense when you consider everything. A great bad movie. Not so much Spotted Cow and cigarettes. More of an edible marijuana and bong rips kinda flick.

[@PurpleColonel]

They should do an episode on this movie for EVERY show, including Plinkett Reviews. Get coverage on every single member's thoughts on Zaat.

[@TheFinalBryan]

The catfishman costume was later resused in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2 episode Go Fish.

[@hi-friaudioman]

When that 7 fell off the front of plinketts house i couldn't stop laughing. I wonder if that was planned or just coincidental. Either way someone noticed in editing because that sound effect was too perfect!

[@ziggykelly]

Shout out to the Female Trouble theme playing very subtle at the opening.

[@capsulej]

Kind of amazing this is basically just a Spotlight Episode long before they even started doing those.

[@mrrdirty6198]

I don't think Mike actually smokes.

[@wedgewoodproductions7383]

10:21 Romance music, followed by hammer thuds and crash vase. Perfect! XD

[@theonlyguiltymaninshawshan7909]

This was riffed as "Blood Waters of Dr. Z" by the MST3K guys. I never knew about the alternate title.

[@lefteyereport6354]

This movie is a legend here in Jacksonville

[@chrisballard6410]

The insane creeping realization that I’ve seen this film when MST3K riffed it as The Blood Waters of Doctor Z

[@Mechristopheles]

It's the Blood Waters of Dr Z -- it was lampooned in one of my favourite MST3K episodes.

[@dubuyajay9964]

A movie can have more than one title.

[@matbuchanan9765]

I'm pretty sure that MST3K or Rifftrax did a version of this but it was called "Blood Waters of Dr Z."

[@losttribe3001]

MST3K, Sci-fi Channel era

[@akaking7499]

o my lord. Those guys are such slobs! (looks around) ohh...

[@thechipmunck9769]

This movie was also featured on MST3K !

[@retroNES2600]

One of my favorite MST3K episodes XD

[@trinityj1]

+thechipmunck9769 I was sitting here trying to decide if it was the same film as The Blood Waters of Dr Z or not. I figured it had to be. There can't be more than one movie about a mad castfish scientist.

[@thechipmunck9769]

+trinityj1 yes, I doubt that two people would have ( cough ), come up with the same brilliant idea of having a catfish as a monster LOL!

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@trinityj1 It is. Same footage and costume.

[@MrNaleIt]

you know, when you say the Zaat suit is one of the greatest, you're not entirely wrong. you should see some of the old ultraman monster suits.

[@dustynesmith]

The flaws in Pee Wee's Big Adventure were intentional as Burton had a love for Ed Wood and that poorly executed style of film making. It was sort of an inside joke, and the bad quality was clearly intentional as it was so obvious and frequent.

[@rush1er]

Yech! I used to work with a Line Cook who, on his lunch break, would smoke cigarettes and eat at the same time. He would take a bite of his cheeseburger and while chewing would take a HUGE drag off the cigarette and blow smoke out of his nose... with a mouth full of food!

[@sethkeown5965]

You worked with plinket.

[@noahmay7708]

Bet he attracted all the ladies...

[@Matthew-uv6gl]

I don't know if it is better or worse, but my father knew someone who worked as a mechanic. Car oils and stuff all over his hands. And he would eat sandwiches with his hands like that. I guess the car gunk added flavor?

[@jelhaj7769]

Mystery Science Theater 3000 introduced me to this movie

[@Ash-bk2dj]

i recognize i am a few years late but i just found out i live down the street from where Zaat was filmed. this is so strange

[@TheShredworthy]

Woah, that must be wild.

[@Everton176]

Still here boys, thanks for all the laughs

[@ethzero]

First saw this on MST3K under the title of Blood Waters of Dr. Z. Delighted the RLM boys covered this.

[@leedwyer161]

was looking for this comment, couldnt remember the title from MST3000

[@KawlinRolfe]

Does anyone know why they do the 'slow running' gag when leaving a room? I've seen it in a few videos now, it's funny and reminds me of old timey films, but I'm not sure if they're trying to parody something or are just making good use of space...

[@davec629]

There is a remake in the works starring Kanye West

[@q1q2q23]

As president? (July 2020 in yo face!)

[@noahmay7708]

of course there is.

[@delsin1126]

I finally wanted to watch this video after you guys referenced it a hundred times :)

[@Jch79]

You gotta love that RLM spends most of their prop budget on beer bottles. I respect that...

[@bennettjohnson574]

10:50 is the greatest sentence every uttered by human tongue

[@robertwild9447]

I love that this movie was made in Jacksonville, Florida. A city so nice they named it Jacksonville.

[@wedgewoodproductions7383]

Before they had Best of the Worst. Would of benefited from more Rich Evans laughing.

[@joeger3877]

***** so much yes.

[@ParadoxapocalypSatan]

BOTW already existed I think?

[@ParadoxapocalypSatan]

Oh it's a re-upload. No wonder I had to re-like :)

[@apaul7502]

"no it was dead children" that was a surprisingly well delivered joke

[@dustynesmith]

Do you guys have any videos explaining your production? I mean, you guys have a lot of sets and quality equipment and spare time. I just wonder how you're able to accomplish this.

[@super_genius]

they have a set up video on this channel

[@chrsn]

I know the full _Zaat_ film is on KZbin, but I don't really think I have the patience to watch it.

[@katelynrushe9025]

I'm 99% sure that it was featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 under the title "The Blood Waters of Dr. Z".

[@dubuyajay9964]

What about the MST3K version? The Blood Waters of Dr. Z?

[@crimsondynamo615]

Dubuya Jay if we could get all five of these guys to watch it together that would be amazing

[@natebud5701]

MST3K has an episode with this. It was called Blood Waters of Dr. Z in that

[@whoijacket]

dkamphaus43 more repeat business?

[@brain_apostrophe_t]

dkamphaus43 A lot of reasons. Often the movies are made overseas, even english ones, and the people who translate the titles aren't coordinated when it comes to titles so it may be released as "beast" in the UK and "monster" in france. Occasionally a movie has to have two titles because a title has been copyrighted in one country but not in another, which is why "Aeroplane!" is called "Flying High!" in Australia. Also a person may be tricked into watching it twice if it has two titles.

[@Neitenth]

@@dkamphaus43 Sometimes they would bomb and then get rereleased with a different name with the hope that noone would notice.

[@bootskii9]

@@dkamphaus43 Zaat was the name for the local release, but the distributors insisted on a name-change before going national.

[@BCZF]

Blood Waters of Dr Z, if you're an MST fan

[@thisdudemanbro]

One of the great episodes of the later years.

[@NameNotAlreadyTaken2]

They really cut the movie down for that episode, I don't know a lot of these scenes they're showing.

[@woodsplitter3274]

Yup! I wonder about the title. Which was first?

[@toonbat]

Greedo? He reminds me more of the salt vampire from Star Trek.

[@woodsplitter3274]

I think I know all the references.

[@q1q2q23]

@@woodsplitter3274 We have the best references. In fact, we might have the bestest referencing in the whole world, trust me, I know...