This week the Rabbit Fighters revisit a dreamworld of magic: Tempe, Arizona! In the 80's! Why, it's the Coen Brothers' second film, Raising Arizona!

Its a madcap story about a convict (Nicholas Cage) who falls in love with a cop (Holly Hunter), cleans up his act and marries her, settles down to experience the "salad days", but things quickly spiral out of control when they discover they can't conceive or adopt. And so they decide to kidnap one of the Arizona Quintuplets (as one does).

Is it all a dream? Is Nicholas Cage actually good in this? Are spherical balloons funny? Join us, won't you?

Next Week - Joshua's pick: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

[Published November 19, 2024]

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The Rabbit Fighters travel back in time to NYC's Lower East Side in the 1930s, where a humble Irish delivery boy named Johnny Kelly is about to become New York's most notorious gangster, Johnny Dangerously. Amy Heckerling directs this parody of gangster movies that 2/3rds of the Rabbit Fighters absolutely hate.

Michael Keaton is the suave, fast-talking gangster Johnny.

Former funnyman turned greaseball gym rat Joe Piscopo is the villainous Danny Vermin.

Taxi alum, redhead, and MENSA member Marilu Henner is Johnny's main squeeze, Lil' Sheridan.

Maureen Stapleton is Johnny's foulmouthed, hardworking, bisexual mom, Ma Kelly.

Peter Boyle is peak-Boyleness Irish mafia boss, Jocko Dundee.

Griffin Dunne is Johnny's weasel-faced, clueless, horny younger brother, District Attorney Tommy Kelly.

Dom DeLuise plays Dom DeLuise in a Pope costume.

Danny DeVito plays Danny DeVito in a smoking jacket.

And for absolutely no reason, legendary Chicago Bears linebacker Dick Butkus plays some schmo with 4 lines driving a car.

[Published November 12, 2024]

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The Rabbit Fighters hop on their BMX bikes and pedal past the full moon as they examine this beloved Steven Spielberg movie about a blobby, hammerheaded alien with googly eyes and glowing fingers that fix boo-boos and geraniums.

E.T.'s ship lands in Los Angeles to gather California kindbud for their condom garden. When men with jingly keys approach, E.T.'s comrades ditch him on Earth, where a lonely boy named Elliott lures him into captivity with free candy.

From there. E.T. makes a phone out of a Speak-N-Spell, gets drunk on Coors Banquet beer, brings fame to Reese's Pieces, telepathically forces Elliott to free hundreds of frogs, bumbles around the house in front of Elliott's clueless mom, and finally dies and comes back from the dead...destroying the hearts of Gen-X kids and preventing them from ever crying again as adults.

This episode brought to you by special guest, #1 E.T. fan, and professor of Xenobiology and Exobiology: RYAN!

Next Week - Greg's pick: Johnny Dangerously

[Published November 5, 2024]

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