Episode #806: Crocodile Dundee
Added 2025-06-17 04:00:02 +0000 UTC“He dresses like an Old West gigolo…” - Eric on Mick Dundee
On this week’s episode, the Totally Cool Awesome 80s jag of the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza is covering the second highest-grossing film of 1986, the croc-out-of-water comedy, Crocodile Dundee! Why does the movie take so long to get to New York City? What in the hell were they thinking with the multiple crotch grab “gags”? Who packs a sexy bathing suit for a hike through the bush? Does the script confirm that Mick has magic powers? Wouldn't someone try to kill Mick after he wastes all that coke at the party? And what in the WORLD are we doing being barefoot in the subway at the end?! PLUS: Be on the lookout for the American Crocodile Dundee, Alligator Johnson!
Crocodile Dundee stars Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Mellon, David Gulpilil, Steve Rackman, Mark Blum, Michael Lombard, and Reginald VelJohnson as Gus; directed by Peter Faiman.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
I just want to clarify the spoiler thing is actually a TV antenna for only the fanciest of Limos and conversion vans
Jethro Gulner
2025-06-27 01:57:57 +0000 UTCThat’s right! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-06-26 13:31:42 +0000 UTCMeant to add: there IS a documentary called Hotel Coolgardie from 2016 whose synopsis is “Fresh off the plane and in need of money, two Finnish backpackers find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” sent to work as barmaids at the only pub in a remote Australian mining town. “ CHILLING stuff.
Daniel Cloud
2025-06-26 13:26:39 +0000 UTCLiquid Sky shoutout! Can we get an episode?
Brandon
2025-06-22 23:22:59 +0000 UTCI saw the Encore Cut and can confirm that Reginald VelJohnson throwing the spoiler like a boomerang is not set up in any way. Also, Village of the Damned should definitely be an episode at some point.
profondo robbo
2025-06-22 15:36:29 +0000 UTCI’m going to copyright Alligator Johnson, sell it to Asylum and wait for the checks to roll in.
Chaz Keracher
2025-06-22 00:12:52 +0000 UTCPlatoon was actually the third highest grossing movie for ‘86, Top Gun was #1 😎✈️
Bolo Santosi
2025-06-20 00:26:39 +0000 UTCSaw this at day camp when I was a kid and have yet to go back to it. Saw the sequel a few times and it could stand to be a Stay Tuned.
Ed Harris
2025-06-19 16:26:44 +0000 UTCMilo & Otis is at the top of my list of movies I wish I could watch again. Our whole family loved it, I thought Moores narration was hilarious, but knowing what I know now, I just cannot bring myself to watch it.
Jamie
2025-06-19 15:52:26 +0000 UTCI cant remember if it was an interview or part of his standup but Jim Jeffries talks about going to meet Paul Hogan to see if he wanted to play his father in Jefferies tv show. He said no (and Jeffries cast Lazenby) but apparently Hogan still makes loads of money off the Dundee films (this was in the before times) because apparently across the world the film is played every 10 seconds on tv networks.
Matthew Lloyd
2025-06-19 07:11:55 +0000 UTCI watched it again today after decades. My goodness! The man looks like he's made of an old catcher's mitt.
Leesha Olivier
2025-06-19 02:56:05 +0000 UTCCabin was RIGHT THERE to shout out the ending of Us ❤️
Tim O'
2025-06-19 00:54:29 +0000 UTCAlways liked this movie and it's sequel (never seen the 3rd one) was surprised when you said the term Sheila confused you but realised the reason the slang comes easy to me is that my mother watched so much Australian soap opera on tv in the uk when I was a kid (neighbours on BBC, home and away on itv twice daily i may add) that by the time i was a toddler I spoke with an Australian accent lol.
Kureigu
2025-06-18 22:48:34 +0000 UTCWe keep calling him Mick, but let us not gloss over the fact that Hogan named his own character "Michael J," while writing this in 84/85. Sheer genius.
Brandon
2025-06-18 17:52:12 +0000 UTCFair dinkum?
Adam Lewis
2025-06-18 17:00:25 +0000 UTCThe part where Donk tells him to "GET STUFFED!" and slams down the phone... still hilarious 😂
Purple Roundy
2025-06-18 16:44:35 +0000 UTCWatched this one when my parents rented it, but my husband and I saw the second one on our first date back in high school. Don’t remember anything about it, and never watched it again. 😂😂😂
Melissa Benjamin
2025-06-18 15:46:45 +0000 UTCThis is a WLM for me.
Christopher Oxentine
2025-06-18 14:06:23 +0000 UTCThe Groupon bit hits home. ✊🏻
TDB
2025-06-18 13:40:23 +0000 UTCGreat Fosters chat while I’m sitting in a London pub listening to the pod with a pint of Fosters!
Enrico Palazzo
2025-06-18 12:54:24 +0000 UTCIt’s a cultural thing. Like how many Muslim men’s first names is Mohammed. In Australia everyone first name is actually Crocodile
Dan sulin
2025-06-18 12:46:59 +0000 UTCMy theory is the more elaborate the proposal is the more likely the relationship is doomed.
Dan sulin
2025-06-18 12:43:21 +0000 UTCThis was a great episoddery doo
Felipe Sobreiro
2025-06-18 12:39:09 +0000 UTCI was surprised Paul Hogan is still alive and even more surprised that he is only 45 in the movie. Then I remembered this was Australia in the 80s so those 45 years were spent in the ozone depleted sun without sun screen. So that’s why his skin looks like a leather purse
Dan sulin
2025-06-18 12:38:00 +0000 UTCIt’s funny that Chris mentions Three Men And A Baby as being part of these type of films because Paul Hogan infamously was offered one of the three men roles and turned it down.
Craig
2025-06-18 11:10:53 +0000 UTCThat’s how they did it the 80s. I just watch The Lost Boys for the first time. Granpa comes in, kills the head vampire, delivers a quip. Credits.
Craig
2025-06-18 09:08:42 +0000 UTCI reckon they were rare even when the movie came out (though they were everywhere in the UK). They’re virtually impossible to find in Australia now.
Craig
2025-06-18 09:06:51 +0000 UTCAs an Australian, have to shout out incredibly rare it is to see a Fosters in the wild… our supposed beer of choice, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone drink one?
Paul Jenner
2025-06-18 07:40:11 +0000 UTCI would've loved Dundee Hook up with Gwendolyn instead.
Daryl Williams
2025-06-18 03:04:41 +0000 UTCI was anticipating some deep cut Simpsons nods and you guys did NOT disappoint! Made a nice respite from the repeated realization this got a Best Original Screenplay nom over Blue Velvet. Just...fucking Hell.
Todd B
2025-06-18 01:19:41 +0000 UTCAs an Australian podcast listener, I cringed when I seen croc dundee on movie list knowing that I would get so many attempted accents. Growing up this movie was on constantly and I must have watched it 100s of times as Paul Hogan was on of my dads favorite comedians. I love the episode and was a great listen. Also I think Danny Mcbride already setup the Alligator Johnson movie with the Cobb Milsap (Michael Rooker) in the latest season of the righteous gemstones.
Cooper87
2025-06-17 23:12:46 +0000 UTCI had to come comment about Polish posters! I have a Weekend at Bernie’s poster that makes it look like a horror film, I love it.
Kate
2025-06-17 22:13:54 +0000 UTCFirst time watch last night, still can't believe how quickly it just cuts to credits. There's something to be said about a movie not overstaying its welcome, but my god it was almost as if the movie was in a rush and had somewhere else it needed to be. Best screenplay nomination really???? @_@
Busiris
2025-06-17 21:24:57 +0000 UTCAnother great movie starring John Meillion - The Cars That Ate Paris. Peter Weir's debut movie - truly nothing quite like it!
David
2025-06-17 21:12:50 +0000 UTCI’m old so I saw this in the theaters and repeatedly on vhs. I may be wrong but I kinda remember one of the genital grabs was in the trailer for it.
James Richie
2025-06-17 20:48:19 +0000 UTCWow you just transported me back in time
Jules of Denial
2025-06-17 19:41:31 +0000 UTCI’ll buy any Alligator Johnson merchandise-eridoo that Felipe wants to whip up
Jules of Denial
2025-06-17 18:58:06 +0000 UTCDid they ever show his Foster’s beer commercials in the states ?
Catboyslim
2025-06-17 18:12:19 +0000 UTCIf anybody is taking requests how about 1984’s Night Of The Comet? Or 1986’s Australian movie Backlash? ….I’ll hang up and listen lol
Catboyslim
2025-06-17 18:04:30 +0000 UTCTrue story. I worked at the Medieval Times in IL back in the 90s. And they had a system where you could propose marriage in front of the entire arena. And if you ever wanted to experience the relativity of time, the 45 seconds where the woman angrily stared at her boyfriend saying nothing became 45 hours of some of the worst tension I've ever experienced.
Christopher Hainsworth
2025-06-17 17:56:04 +0000 UTCThis kinda scratched a certain itch in me. Steve Irwin was a hero of mine growing up. Even had toys of the bloke.
Eren Keskin
2025-06-17 17:00:14 +0000 UTCFifty bucks says that within two years somebody remakes Crocodile Dundee.
Jason Young
2025-06-17 16:53:30 +0000 UTCThings I learned watching this movie: Woman Attractive, Black man has to be from a tribe, and this is a knife.
Ray
2025-06-17 15:54:22 +0000 UTCSecond movie in a row where the two sexy leads end up married in real life...and then divorced. 😬 (also Joanne Whalley and Val Kilmer)
Rose Esposito
2025-06-17 15:24:00 +0000 UTCNew Yorkers get an unfairly bad rap as mean jerks...but if you WALK ON OUR HEADS across a crowded subway platform, you're getting Gaddafi'd, and you deserve it.
Rose Esposito
2025-06-17 15:23:22 +0000 UTC"Un Cuttery do" had me in stitches. the ongoing foreskin jokes make Patreon worth every penny! 😂
Dan Hillen
2025-06-17 14:52:29 +0000 UTCCrocodile Dundee is a little outdated in its approach to race and gender, but pobody's nerfect.
MarkNM
2025-06-17 14:26:42 +0000 UTCOr Long Weekend!
MarkNM
2025-06-17 14:16:19 +0000 UTCI want a “Sheila: The Gloopy Zambie” movie as a double bill with Return of the Living Dead.
Daniel Cloud
2025-06-17 14:12:08 +0000 UTCAh, yes, credit where credit's due to... Bill Kroyer! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-06-17 14:00:41 +0000 UTCNGL Dutch is a recommend for me and a good Thanksgiving movie. How bout Planes Trains and Automobiles for WLM this November and Dutch on the main feed?
Scott Plackemeier
2025-06-17 13:47:50 +0000 UTCThe only Hogan movie I watched as a kid was Flipper. The only thing I can remember is Elijah Wood, dolphins, hammerhead sharks, and spaghetti-o's.
Barista Bran
2025-06-17 13:46:50 +0000 UTCBeen too long since Andrew brought out the Don Draper pitch impression. It was one of these (Hellraiser puzzle box) that originally sold me on the podcast.
Craig
2025-06-17 13:43:28 +0000 UTCExposed: The Ghost Train Fire. It’s on Netflix
Craig
2025-06-17 13:41:44 +0000 UTCBefore Crocodile Dundee, Paul Hogan had a Benny Hill-esque show that used to be on WWOR, usually shown after Benny Hill or used as rain delay fir Mets games
James C Harris
2025-06-17 13:33:30 +0000 UTCalso correction, the director only produced Fern Gully
Calvin Lindfors
2025-06-17 13:20:11 +0000 UTCThe second one isnt the mafia. Its even better...Mexican drug cartel. The fish out of water is the cartel in the outback
Les Whinen
2025-06-17 12:51:20 +0000 UTCDundee 2 was practically a bad Cannon movie reworked to fit in Mick Dundee. I don't remember any jokes from the movie at all, just the drug dealers and a lot of shooting. Like Beverly Hills Cop 2, but bad bad.
MarkNM
2025-06-17 12:37:45 +0000 UTCIf y'all are looking for a good Australian horror movie, check out Lake Mungo. Be prepared though, it's like 2/3 drama and 1/3 horror and depressing as all fuck.
Calvin Lindfors
2025-06-17 12:33:05 +0000 UTCOh yeah, this one was a VHS staple in my house. I knew Reggie Vel J from this long before I knew him from Die Hard or anything else.
johnny stocker
2025-06-17 12:26:24 +0000 UTCIt's so funny (and insane) there was a 13-year gap between II and the third one where he goes to L.A. I think they made the third one to capitalize on the success of Steve Irwin and hoped audiences would see the link between the two.
Z
2025-06-17 10:32:29 +0000 UTC40 years and I only JUST NOW find out his name isn't actually "Crocodile."
Michael Daniels
2025-06-17 10:28:01 +0000 UTCThe part at the end where he's walking on peoples heads is burned into my brain.
Nicholas Knecht
2025-06-17 10:27:28 +0000 UTCWhat was the name of the Australian biker documentary that was previously talked about?
Darryl Bowen
2025-06-17 04:54:45 +0000 UTCOur little podcast that focuses usually on mostly forgotten Australian films covered “Crocodile” Dundee II on a previous episode – a pretty wild sequel from that golden age where films of all genres HAD to feature sub plots featuring evil drug dealers. Hope I’m not stretching the friendship by linking here (please delete if I am)... https://www.buzzsprout.com/1963556/episodes/11891447
David
2025-06-17 04:23:08 +0000 UTCAlligator Johnson sounds like a brand of croc skin rubbers made in Florida.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2025-06-17 04:04:21 +0000 UTCThat’s not a podcast. THIS is a podcast!
Bolo Santosi
2025-06-17 04:02:04 +0000 UTC
