Episode #816: The Goonies (Live in Portland, OR)
Added 2025-08-12 04:00:04 +0000 UTCRecorded November 17, 2024 at Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
“He’s a man-monster, I’m sorry!” - Steve on Sloth
On this week’s Summer Live episode, it’s our wild show from last year in the great city of Portland, Oregon where we were talking about local favorite and Dick Donner classic, The Goonies! How cool is that jailbreak sequence with all the fire and what-not? Was there an old lady more terrifying than Anne Ramsey? What is Martha Plimpton’s character doing at the beginning of this movie, bobbing for crabs? Is all this over-talking what it would be like if Robert Altman made a film with child protagonists? And why did they leave in that Sean Astin name flub take? PLUS: Move over Truffle Shuffle, it’s the Bologna Bounce!
The Goonies stars Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Ke Huy Quan, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano, Anne Ramsey, Lupe Ontiveros, Mary Ellen Trainor, and John Matuszak as Sloth; directed by the late, great Richard Donner.
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Comments
I was at this show and it was the greatest time!!!
Brett Chatfield
2025-10-16 23:18:01 +0000 UTCOh having an instrument made of a person is fine in from dusk til dawn and it's fine again in batman begins when they give up on the narrows because it's happening there by the dozens. But now a drunk pirate with a cock name is where you draw the line? Talk like that is how your organs get turned into an organ.
Jonathan Lyons
2025-08-23 05:44:30 +0000 UTCHowdy, All! If it is Andrew who wrote the ep description about how this was such a lively crowd in all the best ways: I can attest to that, as I was sitting in the front row and was the guy who remarked, "INSIDE MOVES!?" at the 1 hr 34 min mark. This was my first time taking my fiancée to a live show of theirs and my 8th. They've always been so kind-hearted during the meet/greets (Eric was especially thankful for the screen accurate replica of the Billy Rose hat I got him from BEVERLY HILLS COP 3, for example) and I can't wait to fly to Brooklyn for the 15th anniversary show of TOTAL RECALL in December. Wishing you all the best in the remainder of your vacation and onto Season 16 🙂
Cody Downs
2025-08-19 03:55:17 +0000 UTCIt’s definitely bad, but it takes me back to the time when a studio would just churn out some low to mid budget slop intended solely for kids. Adults were supposed to drop you off at these movies and go do something else. If they chose to tag along it was with the understanding that there would be absolutely no jokes of any kind that they would find funny.
HockeenightsCT
2025-08-18 02:02:20 +0000 UTCForrest Gump episode levels of me being gratified that y’all dislike this. One of my least favorite instances of other people’s nostalgia.
Noura Sarayel
2025-08-15 17:13:08 +0000 UTCI grew up in PDX and even worked at Mississippi Studios back in 2010 during the transition when they bought the restaurant next door, turned it into Bar Bar. I helped clean out the apartment above it too that they turned into the green room. Much better than the old green room that was a small, cramped room behind the stage. It is a great space, that whole street is a lot of fun. I smoked a lot of cigarettes in the alley. Even hung out with a pre super famous Ryan Gosling after his band played a show there. Nice guy.
Frank Grimes
2025-08-13 14:12:59 +0000 UTCChris only mentions it briefly, but that Data line about the octopus! I’m sure I’m not the only one who saw this as a kid and wondered what the hell he was talking about. I just assumed he was making stuff up to sound more impressive. It was decades later I saw the deleted scene on DVD and discovered there really was an octopus. Why they didn’t cut or ADR that line is just bizarre.
Craig
2025-08-13 13:12:28 +0000 UTCNot to mention it's probably the best (least bad?) Lwaxana episode, though maybe I'm giving it bonus points since I havent seen it since it aired
Jethro Gulner
2025-08-13 04:41:15 +0000 UTCI never really watched Invader Zim until I was 38 or 39 (now 40) and it's a real good time.
Infinite Terror
2025-08-13 01:02:31 +0000 UTCImagining this in Ebert's voice
Tim O'
2025-08-13 00:37:11 +0000 UTCSo, I was fully on board with you guys that this didn't need to break 2 hours for most of the episode. Then you suggested an end where One Eyed Willy and his crew return and this basically turns into John Carpenter's The Fog, and Goddamn - I would let it run wild for that turn. Also, Steve's Between the Temples joke may not have landed with the live crowd, but I appreciated it.
Todd B
2025-08-12 23:43:35 +0000 UTCI think this movie is like monster squad if you saw for the first time as a kid it will be one of your favorite movies but if you see it for the first time as a adult you will mostly see the flaws.
Mark D Myers
2025-08-12 23:22:40 +0000 UTCWe Hate Movies: It's a Rich Text Full of Penises™️
Rose Esposito
2025-08-12 22:29:14 +0000 UTCGonna disagree with the boys in this one but I’m a few years older. This is peak 80s kid adventure movie slop. I will always find it watchable.
Dan sulin
2025-08-12 18:49:15 +0000 UTCThis may be the most Portland comment possible
Dan sulin
2025-08-12 18:47:40 +0000 UTCI’m gonna have to agree with the boys on this one. I have never been a fan of this movie myself. I’ve seen it years ago, and even more recently, but it has never landed for me.
Henry Valdez
2025-08-12 18:24:35 +0000 UTCI took my polycule to this show for a date night and they had such a lovely time 🐱
Monster Mittenz
2025-08-12 17:26:41 +0000 UTCThey cleared the set for the truffle shuffle but had everyone on set for the make out scenes? Makes sense.
Daryl Williams
2025-08-12 17:21:39 +0000 UTCJust needed a good “Uh Alison you’re so stoopid. Bag-goy!”
Jason
2025-08-12 13:39:12 +0000 UTCLooking forward to the Nexus ep since the gang buried the lede on the real powerhouse of Half A Life
Winson Paine
2025-08-12 11:11:29 +0000 UTCThe sibbilance from the microphone audio in Portland (that's the chaos of recording live shows for ya, there's stuff that just falls outside your control) makes Andrew, Chris, and Steve sound like they're subtly incorporating their Billy Campbell impersonations into the bits. I quite love it.
Z
2025-08-12 10:12:20 +0000 UTCI admire the restraint required to avoid making a "Goondock Saints" joke, that was all I could think about during my last viewing.
profondo robbo
2025-08-12 08:47:43 +0000 UTCI remember that guy lol
Ray
2025-08-12 08:19:09 +0000 UTCCan't be overstated enough how exciting it was to catch this show live. Just the way it was set up, being in the front row meant I was like less than 10 feet away from our boys. I think if you listen closely, you can hear the guy right next to me get progressively more enthusiastic as he continued *pounding* can after can of PBR during the recording. I also somehow managed to bump into Andrew, Eric, and Chris multiple times before and after the show, which made that trip down to Portland even more special. I was always nervous not to overstay my welcome when chatting with them but they were always friendly and cool as hell.
Busiris
2025-08-12 06:15:12 +0000 UTCSame 🤣🤣
Ray
2025-08-12 05:17:47 +0000 UTCHell yeah, this show was incredible live. And Mississippi Studios was spectacular as a venue.
Ray
2025-08-12 05:17:23 +0000 UTCyay!!! I was a few tall glasses of water deep at the pdx show but I remember laughing a lot! excited to listen again, thanks guys :)
Jaimey
2025-08-12 04:02:48 +0000 UTC
