The gas station guy's line that there are things you do even if you don't have to like it is cited, but the real lesson is not to pick up hitchhikers and to always have a full tank.
Earlier, the big ultimate lesson is to get gas when you need it, stop at the right station and never drop below a half tank, called the Miyagi.
Offered the grandfather or the gas station windshield washer, the windshield washer is the choice; the hosts wonder whether he is part of the family, decide he was not invited to dinner, and imagine him as a part-timer going home after another weird day cleaning up bones.
During the scene discussion, the redhead washing the windows at the first gas station stop is called one of the funniest parts of the movie and flagged for the Dion Waiters Award.
Penny Marshall would be the horoscope comic relief, but the unknown quality of the actual actors is what makes the film, because they seem like real people.
Filmed mostly at a 1900s farmhouse near Round Rock; art director Robert A. Burns collected the remains; Gunnar Hansen cut Marilyn Burns' finger for real; the gas station is now a horror-themed barbecue attraction; mob and Deep Throat money financed the film and the cast lost its share
They filmed mostly at a 1900s farmhouse near Round Rock, Texas, and the art director who drove around picking up the cattle remains was Robert A. Burns.
In his book Chainsaw Confidential, Gunnar Hansen admitted that after several failed attempts he secretly removed the protective tape from the knife and cut Marilyn Burns' finger for real, which the hosts call an OSHA violation.
The gas station featured in several scenes is now a horror-themed attraction at a Texas barbecue restaurant and motel, closer to Austin, still with the vintage We Slaughter Barbecue sign; a live show there is floated.
Short of money to finish, the production got financing from basically the mob and the company behind Deep Throat, which needed to wash money; the cast was promised a piece, got only half of what was claimed, signed it away, and the owners lied about how much it made.
Nobody from the film slingshot into an acting career, unlike the Obsession argument that you get paid on your next job; the company that owed the money had gone bankrupt and New Line Cinema belatedly gave them some money.
A recurring theme is that nearly everyone involved made no money, was emotionally scarred and stayed bitter, except Gunnar Hansen; they had to make it their crowning achievement, giving interviews in rooms of memorabilia and signing chainsaws at conventions.
Earlier, the hosts read that the finger cut was real and it was her actual blood because they could not pull off the cut with fake blood.
For indie horror movies, this and Blair Witch are at the apex.
For final girls, Laurie is called more iconic, with Ripley from Alien also raised; Sally is named the most underrated final girl, while another picks the girl in Friday the 13th Part 2.
A tangent weighs which Friday the 13th the show should do, Part 2 or the final chapter, with a listener vote floated.
Chainsaws are a yes; Texas is a no but cinematic rural, scary Texas is a yes; hot 70s blondes named Marilyn is a no, with Maryland Chambers (as transcribed) instead; Toby Hooper's apex is Poltergeist, which he did direct.
Head cheese is a yes for sure.
For movie murderers, Norman Bates and Lecter are considered and Myers is probably the answer because of his body of work; Leatherface is called a schedule merchant whose victims walk into his house, and grave robbing is something anybody can do.
Hitchhiking is probably not at its apex, but the 1972 Ford Club Wagon they used as the van gets an apex call.
Hanks would be one of the dudes in the van, while Cruz (as transcribed) could have done the hitchhiker, especially the Cruz of today's red carpets.
The hosts riff on Cruz in the van saying $2 is a fair price for the picture and praising Franklin; the hitchhiker's demand for $2 is called the moment you know this is all wrong, and a video of Cruz coming back for a third handshake with an amputee is recalled.
The idea, attributed to Craig, of having Cruz on the show is rejected: the hosts say he has lost his mind and is gone.
The award also goes to Leatherface: in Chainsaw Confidential, Gunnar Hansen wrote that he had one dyed shirt and wore it for four straight weeks, so by the end of the shoot no one would stand near him.
The other pick is the grandfather, a desiccated body sitting up in the attic heat for weeks, fueled only by blood and called one of the freakiest things ever seen in a movie.
Picking up a hitchhiker by a slaughterhouse; surviving a meat hook; leaving the van's lights on; continuing the trip after the hitchhiker; the road-trip itinerary; Pam reading the Zodiac book; the chainsaw's power source; sudden traffic on the dirt road; Leatherface never running straight
Passing a slaughterhouse, nobody should pick up that hitchhiker; would someone lifted onto a metal hook die right away or slide down, depending on where it hits, and the actress could only hang there in a harness for a couple of minutes.
They leave the van's lights on to run down the battery, have no gas, and keep going after the hitchhiker cuts himself and Franklin, takes their picture, lights it on fire and smears blood on the van; the trip should be over.
The itinerary makes no sense: visit their father's old place and make sure grandpa wasn't grave robbed, down a desolate highway in 100-degree heat, bringing Franklin; one host answers Craig that 70s road trips with three channels and no phones were like this.
The biggest nitpick: right after all this, Pam starts reading the Zodiac book instead of talking about the hitchhiker.
How the chainsaw runs with no extension cord, battery or gas, and whether Leatherface would remember to charge or refuel it.
At the end there is suddenly traffic on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, a giant truck and then a pickup, so she got very lucky; Leatherface never runs in a straight line, so Sally could have put more evasive moves on him.
Eight follow-ups exist, including Two, The Next Generation, the Jessica Biel reboot, the Netflix film and the 2017 prequel Leatherface; a Curry Barker reboot is rumored
Eight films followed as sequels, prequels or remakes, including The Next Generation with Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey, seen once and called entertaining; Two, also directed by Toby Hooper, is liked a lot, and Kim Henkel, who wrote the original, was involved with The Next Generation.
There was a Jessica Biel reboot, a Netflix film about influencers killed by Leatherface that one participant enjoyed, and the 2017 DirecTV prequel Leatherface starring Stephen Dorff; Curry Barker is rumored to be rebooting it with Glenn Powell possibly involved, coming to Skydance.
After watching a lot of Affleck that week, a participant performs a character, Doug McRae (as transcribed), taunting Leatherface as the only guy in Texas with a chainsaw who will not make head cheese out of him, and living in a van by the old Franklin place.
As new blood, Stephen A. Smith does a somber Straight Shooter the day after the murders: he does not care about the five young people, only that Leatherface, his brother and the best slaughterhouse chef in the country, may not be able to do his thing.
