Episode #791: Wish Upon
Added 2025-03-25 04:00:05 +0000 UTC“He is the hottest hoarder you’ve ever seen!” - Steve on Ryan Phillippe’s character
On this week’s episode, the 2025 Listener Request Month comes to a close with a rowdy discussion about the ridiculously tame PG-13 horror movie, Wish Upon! Why on Earth did they care about avoiding an R rating with this fake Final Destination movie? What is with all the dumpster diving? Why couldn’t this wish box talk or be accompanied by a ghost or something? And where is literally any faculty administrator with all the bullying going down at this school? PLUS: How can one be a slut for wontons?
Wish Upon stars Joey King, Ryan Phillippe, Ki Hong Lee, Mitchell Slaggert, Shannon Purser, Sydney Park, Elisabeth Röhm, Alice Lee, and Sherilyn Fenn as Mrs. Deluca; directed by John R. Leonetti.
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Comments
"Toots with a Silent J" made me laugh so hard.
Sonya Ballantyne
2025-04-04 16:14:02 +0000 UTCYou get to see Bruce Willis' dong. That's the movies claim to fame.
John Locke
2025-04-04 13:29:48 +0000 UTCMy wife and I had one and it's the best thing ever. No more smelly garbage! But now we live in our house with a septic tank so we can't have one.
John Locke
2025-04-04 13:27:47 +0000 UTCSame here. I'm struggling to get through this turd.
John Locke
2025-04-04 13:26:18 +0000 UTCThis movie sounded so awful that I had to check it out. Question. Why do Claire and her dad look about 5 years apart in age?
John Locke
2025-04-04 13:25:34 +0000 UTCUpdate* I am currently watching Wish Upon after hearing you guys talk about it ... I can't believe you were able to finish this turd of a movie 💩
Watch_N_Rewatch
2025-04-02 01:50:19 +0000 UTCI watched this last night for this episode and wow what a shitshow
Dalton Barrett
2025-03-28 17:17:20 +0000 UTCTo quote the classic Gilbert Gotfried interview from long ago…. I WANT TO BE RICH… HIT BY A BUS RICH!!!!!! 🤑 😂😂😂 Congrats on another successful Listener Request Month Gents! Loved it 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Carlos Ramirez
2025-03-28 09:59:40 +0000 UTCI support my Constitutional right to have a garbage disposal, as the founding fathers and mothers intended. I'm a slut for garbage disposals. This is a quintessential great ep, terrible movie for me
Smaug
2025-03-27 14:09:51 +0000 UTCGreat episode but I particularly loved when it briefly turned into The Nexus featuring “Captain Face”.
Craig
2025-03-27 03:27:48 +0000 UTCBut is he a Dumpster Zaddy?
MarkNM
2025-03-26 20:01:07 +0000 UTCThis episode makes me remember your interview with Gilbert. "I wish I was rich. Balls bitten off by a dog rich!"
Jamie
2025-03-26 18:13:12 +0000 UTCI never really liked turkey and that’s what this movie is.
Frank Grimes
2025-03-26 17:09:35 +0000 UTCI got thru link, i somehow got thru duffel bag, i made it home on Shame, but dude, this one crushed my spirit. I turned it off like Steve watching Dirty Grandpa. Sorry, listener, u broke me.
Brandon
2025-03-26 16:45:11 +0000 UTCGame Show Network is blaring in the waiting room while I start this and honestly? VHS Trailer Game would kill.
Tala Hobballah
2025-03-26 16:41:27 +0000 UTCI think the Slender Man movie is Bye Bye at home
Jamie
2025-03-26 15:20:47 +0000 UTCI would have wagered cash money that they had done an episode on Color of Night. I must have been thinking of HDTGM.
Jamie
2025-03-26 15:18:43 +0000 UTCThanks for the Columbus, Ohio shoutout. Entirely accurate. To quote one of our more infamous billboards, Hell is real.
Dominic Kovell
2025-03-26 15:05:57 +0000 UTCMy interest in that game barely lasted a day, yeah. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-26 14:19:34 +0000 UTComg I JUST watched enemy of the state last weekend I’m so excited to hear ya’ll talk about it me and my sisters had a blast lol!
Nathalie Pena
2025-03-26 14:16:59 +0000 UTCMy father-n-law is a trumpet jazz dad 😬
TDB
2025-03-26 12:37:41 +0000 UTCNever Been Chrissed?
Hard To Gwil
2025-03-26 01:21:31 +0000 UTCYou boys were correct, Byrne is in Stigmata as well as End Of Days. He was going through a real heaven vs. hell phase and he was playing both sides!
Adam Ray
2025-03-25 23:38:22 +0000 UTCSpeaking of “box addicts,” can’t fucking wait for Michael Douglas in the Gamentary
RJ Cunningham
2025-03-25 21:49:15 +0000 UTCI let out an audible “woooow!” when Andrew revealed this director also helmed Mortal Kombat Annihilation. Also I didn’t realize they were trying to uglify Phillippe until he got his “glow up” with shaving his sexy facial hair and giving him a sax. That’s worse than the classic trope of “beautiful actress wearing glasses to make them ugly.” I truly didn’t even realize they were doing that Phillippe
RJ Cunningham
2025-03-25 21:08:17 +0000 UTCAnyone ever try the Ghostbusters version of Pokémon Go? Probably played it all of two minutes.
Darryl Bowen
2025-03-25 20:42:22 +0000 UTCI've seen Color of Night three times, but all on broadcast tv; so the one thing I know nothing about in that movie is the sex scenes.
The Wheel
2025-03-25 20:27:26 +0000 UTCShawn Mullins name was said more times in this episode than the entire last two decades combined
RJ Cunningham
2025-03-25 19:58:19 +0000 UTCBravo on tmnt hyper stone heist reference.
Mark D Myers
2025-03-25 19:48:08 +0000 UTCA unified rant against garbage disposals?!?! Join the 20th century!
Supposing they brought
2025-03-25 18:01:39 +0000 UTCPokemon Go-ers are definitely still around. I was walking down the street the other day and had to push my way through a group of them, faces down to their phones, powerbank cables coming out of their pockets. I was shocked they were still a thing!
Tony King
2025-03-25 17:59:13 +0000 UTCParent of a youth here to say Pokémon GO is very much still alive and well.
ChasingKillersMusic
2025-03-25 17:42:59 +0000 UTCI posted too soon! Chris mentions Columbus (where I live)! It sucks here… I travel to New York as frequently as I can.
Derek Baxter
2025-03-25 16:43:20 +0000 UTCListening now and being from Ohio and hearing Steve and Eric talk about “Ohio rich”, I have to say… they aren’t wrong.
Derek Baxter
2025-03-25 16:41:55 +0000 UTCHold on, you dig on shitty multiverse movies that talk about multiverse movies?
Daryl Williams
2025-03-25 16:27:05 +0000 UTCThis movie came out in an era of these poorly produced horror movies somehow getting theatrical releases. Granted, that certainly still happens, but it also came out about 6 months after The Bye-Bye Man and has very similar energy. On that note, The Bye-Bye Man also happens to be one of my favorite old episodes of the podcast and the energy of this episode is also VERY similar, and I love it.
Busiris
2025-03-25 16:02:28 +0000 UTCNever saw Color of Night and was immediately screaming in the car. Give me my gatdam points. Edit: okay, I may have seen a few specific minutes of it.
MarkNM
2025-03-25 14:50:55 +0000 UTCI'm guessing the WLM will be either Crimson Tide or Unforgiven, leaning towards Tide as it has more in common with Enemy of the State.
Justine Prudhomme
2025-03-25 14:21:09 +0000 UTCSame! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-25 13:54:51 +0000 UTCRight? No electrician worth their salt is installing the garbage disposal button there! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-25 13:54:35 +0000 UTCOut of that whole comment, the thing I zeroed in on immediately was that you had burritos in our school cafeteria! Very jealous! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-25 13:54:12 +0000 UTCThe VHS Trailer Game is really neck and neck: Steve has 28 points, Andrew has 26 and Eric has 24!
Felipe Sobreiro
2025-03-25 13:53:43 +0000 UTClol, is that true? Is the game still big? Can't remember the last time I saw someone "catching them all" in public. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-25 13:53:22 +0000 UTCI see what you did there, Toupee... - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2025-03-25 13:52:50 +0000 UTCHell yes, can't wait till next week for enemy of the state. By far my fave will Smith movie/role. Hackman and him had great chemistry....and that cast was stacked!
Frank Grimes
2025-03-25 13:31:36 +0000 UTCIs it sad that when Steve said "Is it because I'm a lesbian?" made laugh so hard that I choked on my breakfast burrito? I knew exactly what the reference was
James C Harris
2025-03-25 13:30:55 +0000 UTC2 hrs + on Wish Upon is a dead give away for a trailer game
David Thompson
2025-03-25 13:00:06 +0000 UTCYeah, she could have wished she was a little bit taller,she could have wished she was a baller or wished she had a girl who looked good, or a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six-four Impala.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2025-03-25 10:54:13 +0000 UTCJudging from past experiences, a slut for wontons is the best type of wanton woman.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2025-03-25 10:47:36 +0000 UTC"mom, can we watch The Bye Bye Man?" "no, we have The Bye Bye Man at home" The Bye Bye Man at home:
Alex Murica
2025-03-25 08:41:40 +0000 UTCFun fact, pokémon go is still around, and it was just purchased by the Saudis.
Ray
2025-03-25 06:52:42 +0000 UTCI was big into the show Hoarders back in 2011. My ex wife and I would watch an episode while eating dinner and see who would be grossed out the most. I don't know what you'll find of use dumpster diving at a school. I lost a retainer at school when I accidentally threw it away during lunch and my mom came to help dig through trash which was nothing but open/half drank milk cartons and burritos...we did not find it and she was pretty pissed about the whole thing. Got a free replacement though.
Darryl Bowen
2025-03-25 06:20:56 +0000 UTCRegarding the garbage disposal, I was most upset with the placement of the on/off switch: perfect hip height? These are Z-grade Final Destination kills but that was just lazy.
John Zurkuhlen
2025-03-25 05:39:18 +0000 UTCFuck yes, I love this movie!!!!! And I totally dig on multiverses 🤣
Evan
2025-03-25 04:57:48 +0000 UTCSo happy this got picked up
Tom
2025-03-25 04:34:00 +0000 UTCThe thing I remember most vividly is the ending and bursting out laughing when it happened.
Voror
2025-03-25 04:06:48 +0000 UTCMan, this is going to be a funny ep and I'm sure the guys go into this extensively, but I gotta say something. This girl is the shittiest wisher in the history of wish stories. She's on wish number 5. She knows this thing works by now and she's like 'Um, I guess I wish my friends were super horny for my dad.' WHAT THE HELL?
johnny stocker
2025-03-25 04:04:18 +0000 UTC
