Season 1 Finale

Sara: 0:07

Hello, and welcome to mouse ears and a movie, a Disney animation conversation. I'm Sara Farrell baker joined by my co-host Chrissy Woj

Chrissy: 0:16

we are two grown women avoiding responsibility and watching cartoons every episode, except this one, we will be watching a Disney or Pixar animated feature, chosen at random from the bucket. then we will reconvene here to share our thoughts, some behind the scenes knowledge and probably make some weird noises.

Sara: 0:31

This week, we aren't watching anything. It's the season one finale. So let's talk about all the movies we watched, the ones we wish we had and the ones we really wish we hadn't.

Chrissy: 0:42

Let's do it.

Sara: 0:43

Yay. So this season, I'm gonna try to do this off the top of my head. We did Bambi little mermaid. Lelo and stitch, but something before that hunchback in Notre Dame, dinosaur that's five, Cinderella bolt. Oh, Fantasia. There's one more. What is it? Tell me,

Chrissy: 0:59

No chance. No way.

Sara: 1:01

you don't know.

Chrissy: 1:01

I won't say it.

Sara: 1:02

Oh mother fuck! It's Hercules.

Chrissy: 1:04

You're welcome for that.

Sara: 1:09

All right, Chrissy. like, let's get the basics out of the way. Best movie. What was yours?

Chrissy: 1:13

the little mermaid.

Sara: 1:14

Boom. Yes, correct answer. That is the best one. Good Good to know that. You're

Chrissy: 1:18

Sarah, what was the worst movie

Sara: 1:21

Bolt.

Chrissy: 1:21

fail? It was hunchback.

Sara: 1:24

Nope. Nope. Okay. My argument is as such following now, bolt has no redeeming qualities. There's nothing good about it. They even have like musical inclined people who don't do anything musically. Good. I know words. And then hunchback has. A shitload of good music, save for the one about like lusting after, as Esmerelda and wanting her to burn in hell. Don't love that one. but hunchback has a redeeming quality and that redeeming quality is the music and it gets one half of a redeeming quality for Jason Alexander. The end.

Chrissy: 1:59

I I get it with the music, but I would rather just go to YouTube and listen to the three songs that were enjoyable in that movie. I would watch bolt again.

Sara: 2:09

Never.

Chrissy: 2:10

I'm not gonna go out of my way to watch bolt again, but like, I've got a, baby. when he's four he'll like bolt, it'll be adorable and charming

Sara: 2:21

My son, went after me for my stance on bolt. he loved the movie given he is nine. So.

Chrissy: 2:30

It's a kid's movie.

Sara: 2:31

There's that it is a kid's

Chrissy: 2:32

Hunchback of Notre Dame is not

Sara: 2:35

no, it is not, but Disney really does a great, usually does a great job of movies that kids will see, but the parents can also at least tolerate at the very least tolerate. Usually we enjoy them. Dear God, I hated bolt. August came after me. Like he listen to that episode and he waged war on me. He changed my phone background to a picture of bolts and he wrote like, I know what you did or something on it. oh my God, I forget what else. He was just like trying to prank me first he came in here and was giving me. A fake, very nice. Like, oh yeah. It was a funny episode. You were very good in it. And then after a moment, when he thought that I felt safe in that conversation, he was like, what were you is the best movie it's got this it's got, and none of it was good, but those were his reasons

Chrissy: 3:25

but he's a kid and it's a kid. So like if, if Disney hadn't made it, I would've liked it like point blank, but because it's Disney, I have higher standards for it. that is where I think it was better than hunchback is because like hunchback was fucking horrible, like traumatizing.

Sara: 3:45

yes. I look at it this way. Game of Thrones is traumatizing, but most of game of Thrones is good. Whereas.

Chrissy: 3:52

I would say half of game of Thrones is good.

Sara: 3:56

I would say like five sevenths of game of Thrones is good. but bolt zero sevenths. Good.

Chrissy: 4:03

I'd give it three sevenths.

Sara: 4:05

God. Nope.

Chrissy: 4:06

It was mediocre. Like it wasn't great. And it wasn't awful. It was unmemorable.

Sara: 4:12

Exactly. It was boring, at least with hunchback. Like I was horrified, But I was entertained,

Chrissy: 4:19

But I was also bored by Hercules and I love Hercules.

Sara: 4:23

yeah. And we were a little bored by Le and stitch. And I've seen that like 8,000 times though.

Chrissy: 4:27

I did not like Lilo and stitch very much either. Like I would put Bolton, Lilo and stitch in the same category.

Sara: 4:34

get out of here. Ma'am.

Chrissy: 4:36

I do not regret what I just said.

Sara: 4:37

Folks, I hope you have enjoyed our show.

Chrissy: 4:40

We're no longer friends. Sarah is firing

Sara: 4:43

We are coming to an end. divorcing. We are consciously uncoupling. This is done. just severing everything. Get out of here. Ma'am.

Chrissy: 4:53

I said what I said

Sara: 4:54

well after you've said all the wrong things. What do you think is the movie that surprised you?

Chrissy: 4:59

I think dinosaur surprised me the most because I was not expecting. Anything. I was expecting what I got out of bolt from dinosaur, and I actually enjoyed dinosaur more than I thought I would.

Sara: 5:13

Yeah, dinosaur bored the shit outta me.

Chrissy: 5:14

I didn't love dinosaur Like I'm not super, but I was impressed by it. I thought it was beautifully done.

Sara: 5:21

It was, it is a very pretty movie.

Chrissy: 5:23

I, loved the opening and, and that set me up for enjoying it, no matter what happened.

Sara: 5:29

I accept.

Chrissy: 5:30

What about you? What surprised you?

Sara: 5:32

Fantasia surprised me. I really enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun watching that. I still have yet to enjoy it post gummy, but I mean, I've got a whole break in the season to do that

Chrissy: 5:43

I kind of wanna do that too. Maybe we should do that together as a side side quest.

Sara: 5:48

ma'am

Chrissy: 5:49

Ma'am.

Sara: 5:49

yes. Ma'am

Chrissy: 5:50

that sounds like really fun.

Sara: 5:52

it.

Chrissy: 5:52

I have many ideas. We'll talk.

Sara: 5:54

Love.

Chrissy: 5:55

Favorite sidekick.

Sara: 5:57

Ooh.

Chrissy: 5:57

I have many,

Sara: 5:58

Okay. My favorite sidekick out of all of them probably a three way tie from the same movie. And that is

Chrissy: 6:07

Cinderella little mermaid shit.

Sara: 6:10

Yes, Sebastian flounder St. Three way tie, best

Chrissy: 6:15

I would also. I agree, but I would also add Guus Pegasus and Bruno

Sara: 6:21

Oh, Bruno darling Bruno. Okay. I accept.

Chrissy: 6:25

mm-hmm mm-hmm

Sara: 6:27

princess that we had this season?

Chrissy: 6:28

Ariel

Sara: 6:28

Uh, Duh.

Chrissy: 6:30

she way cooler, Cindy.

Sara: 6:31

She's the best one. favorite

Chrissy: 6:33

Hades.

Sara: 6:34

Yes. Oh shit. That's a very good,

Chrissy: 6:37

I,

Sara: 6:38

favorite.

Chrissy: 6:38

I know you and your

Sara: 6:39

I love my Ursula.

Chrissy: 6:41

I love Ursula. It was very hard for me to pick Hades over her, but I had to

Sara: 6:46

I get it. I understand. I I respect this choice. I won't even say anything mean about it, cuz it is an equally good choice.

Chrissy: 6:54

thank you.

Sara: 6:54

biased towards Ursula.

Chrissy: 6:56

Respect. Like, I, I, I almost went with her and I was like, you know, Haiti deserves that. Love Haiti deserves his own TV series.

Sara: 7:03

If I did not have like a deep loathing for James Woods, I would say yes, do it. Can we get another voice factor in there? Like they did with. Robin Williams, not doing the Aladdin series and they got someone else to play Janie and it just wasn't as good.

Chrissy: 7:16

it wouldn't be as good.

Sara: 7:17

know, uh,

Chrissy: 7:18

All right. Favorite song?

Sara: 7:20

favorite song for the whole time we were on this. Ugh.

Chrissy: 7:24

I have like, literally, like no questions asked. I have one.

Sara: 7:28

yours first, then

Chrissy: 7:28

No.

Sara: 7:29

God dammit. Shit. I think it might be to hero.

Chrissy: 7:33

All right, I'm going with part of your world.

Sara: 7:35

I was gonna do that, but then I was like, that's so like I'm choosing everything little mermaid. So I need to take a

Chrissy: 7:40

It's okay. If you choose everything little mermaid, it's your favorite?

Sara: 7:43

I know, but I do think I like zero to hero a smidge more.

Chrissy: 7:48

When no time flat. I actually think I prefer go the distance and I hundred percent prefer, I won't say I'm in love.

Sara: 7:56

That is a good one.

Chrissy: 7:57

Which I considered, but like, literally it was like hands down. It was part of your world because that set me into like this whole universe,

Sara: 8:05

part of your world really sets up so much of what we hear going forward in the Disney Renaissance from that forward.

Chrissy: 8:11

Hell yeah, it does

Sara: 8:13

good.

Chrissy: 8:13

so good.

Sara: 8:14

which movie would you be most likely to buy the mini years for?

Chrissy: 8:19

I wanna say little mermaid, but really like, I wanna pair of fucking Hades ears.

Sara: 8:24

Oh, I like this. I like this. I have an interesting answer, So these don't exist, but they need to, and Disney will probably steal this idea and then not pay me for it, cuz that is their jam. But, mouse, many ears where the two ears are the little doors that Gus and Jack, the little circle, like in the

Chrissy: 8:45

Oh,

Sara: 8:47

doors open and then you see them poking their heads through and. Gus has like the stack of corn going up to his chin and Jack has, uh, some, some beads or something or a sash

Chrissy: 9:00

I love

Sara: 9:00

in the middle might be Lucifer, like just a little like crouched face of Lucifer.

Chrissy: 9:06

I love it.

Sara: 9:08

I've invented the most genius ears

Chrissy: 9:11

They're amazing. I wish I was like crafty enough and had enough hustle in me to do that.

Sara: 9:17

Oh, same. I have no, I have nothing there.

Chrissy: 9:19

I have neither. All right. So if you were hanging out in the parks, which character would you wanna meet?

Sara: 9:26

So you've got like characters that are already there that we know we can meet. So like, I love getting to see Ariel. I would like to go hang out with Ariel, but I also like the idea of thinking of like a character that is not in the parks. Or not typically in the parks. And I think I would have to go with I'm stalling and making a really long sentence.

Chrissy: 9:47

I'm pretty sure that Meg does meet in the parks, but I've never met her. Same with Hades.

Sara: 9:52

Ooh.

Chrissy: 9:53

And Gus and

Sara: 9:53

I would like to meet. my favorite character in the parks. It's stitch. I love stitch in the parks. I love it. I love best friends breakfast at Ohana. I love stitch.

Chrissy: 10:04

I met stitch. once we, uh, we danced together at the Halloween party in 2012.

Sara: 10:09

And then he did him dirty called us movie boring.

Chrissy: 10:11

it was boring.

Sara: 10:12

my God.

Chrissy: 10:13

like watching a Disney animated TV series.

Sara: 10:15

I will, I will agree with you there. It's fun though. I like it. which movie needs a good sequel? Not like direct to D V D sequel, but a like toy story. Two level sequel.

Chrissy: 10:26

Well, I was literally thinking about this and I was like, almost all of these have direct to DVD sequels um, I mean, bolt doesn't, but I don't really wanna see a sequel of bolt.

Sara: 10:37

bolt. should have been direct to DVD.

Chrissy: 10:39

I won't argue with you there, but I would like to see Hercules and Meg, the movie.

Sara: 10:45

that would be interesting. Yeah. Cuz Turkey has now chosen to be mortal and is on earth with Meg and like. What are they doing? Are they shopping for furniture in like some Greek market and getting a cute little apartment in like downtown THS or something

Chrissy: 11:01

eating some BVA together. Love it.

Sara: 11:04

I like that. I'm a big fan of that. like to see. Yeah, I want a good Lelo and stitch sequel a good one. I love the end where they're showing all the snapshots of like their travels and little adventures and stuff. I want that movie where like, they are a blended family with Jamba and Bleakley and like having Christmas together and stuff like,

Chrissy: 11:26

I would totally watch Christmas with Jamba UN bleakly,

Sara: 11:28

Yes.

Chrissy: 11:29

just that's the title. That's it. Who was your favorite voice actor?

Sara: 11:33

My favorite voice, down, Jody Benson.

Chrissy: 11:36

Oh, I love that.

Sara: 11:38

I need Jody Benson followed very closely by Danny DeVito as Phil.

Chrissy: 11:43

Hands down for me, Eleanor, Audley She is my Fave.

Sara: 11:48

She's male.

Chrissy: 11:49

Yes, she is

Sara: 11:50

you love her forever.

Chrissy: 11:52

forever and ever. And also because we're talking voice actors, we must pay respect to pat Carol, the voice of Ursula who is no longer with us

Sara: 12:02

The one and only she passed this. Uh, she died this past July.

Chrissy: 12:07

Yeah.

Sara: 12:08

That makes me so sad. She was 95 years old.

Chrissy: 12:12

That was a good life.

Sara: 12:13

Oh, damn. she was an Emmy winner, a drama desk winner, a Grammy award winner, and a Tony award. Nony I'm sad. I was not prepared to mourn her today. what was the hardest movie to sit through?

Chrissy: 12:28

Hoback.

Sara: 12:29

I'm having a hard time with that one,

Chrissy: 12:31

It was so traumatic for me. I was

Sara: 12:33

very traumatic.

Chrissy: 12:35

is so fucked up.

Sara: 12:36

It was super traumatic. I was just so bored during bolt. I was so bored.

Chrissy: 12:43

It happens, dude. How many fucking movies do we have within infanticide?

Sara: 12:48

Oh, okay. Yeah, let's do our in infanticide, uh, count. So in infanticide or attempted in infanticide. I think it's all attempted in infanticide. So we've got,

Chrissy: 12:59

Technically Bambi is attempt.

Sara: 13:01

oh yeah, shit. Okay. So Bambi, uh, not little mermaid,

Chrissy: 13:05

Definitely hunchback.

Sara: 13:07

very much hunchback. Hercules,

Chrissy: 13:10

Not, not Lilo.

Sara: 13:11

not Fantasia. Dinosaur.

Chrissy: 13:13

Oh God. With that egg man,

Sara: 13:15

Making him do a little omelet.

Chrissy: 13:17

not bolt,

Sara: 13:18

not Cinderella.

Chrissy: 13:19

And then how many dead parents do we have

Sara: 13:22

Oh God. Okay.

Chrissy: 13:23

Bambi?

Sara: 13:24

Bambi. We've got dead mom. Okay. Yes, little mermaid Mom's already dead.

Chrissy: 13:29

gone.

Sara: 13:30

And I'm guessing Eric's parents are both gone.

Chrissy: 13:32

yes.

Sara: 13:33

never see them.

Chrissy: 13:34

Hunchback, of Notre Dame,

Sara: 13:36

both parents.

Chrissy: 13:37

Lelo and stitch dead parents, dinosaur dead parents. Hercules.

Sara: 13:42

His parents are gods.

Chrissy: 13:44

Fantasia, probably some dead parents

Sara: 13:47

Oh yeah. They gotta be in

Chrissy: 13:48

who even knows

Sara: 13:49

Yes,

Chrissy: 13:50

bolt no dad,

Sara: 13:52

dad. No. So either dead dad or absentee father.

Chrissy: 13:55

Cinderella, dead parents. Lot of dead parents.

Sara: 13:59

whole bunch all over the place. Disney's so happy and fun. So

Chrissy: 14:03

and wonderful,

Sara: 14:05

It's like a little cloud

Chrissy: 14:07

no

Sara: 14:08

rest my head on it.

Chrissy: 14:09

warm, fuzzy, dead parents, and an attempted baby deaths.

Sara: 14:15

oh my God.

Chrissy: 14:16

So much love and coziness.

Sara: 14:18

Would you replace any of our movies with a Pixar film? We got no Pixar.

Chrissy: 14:27

of course

Sara: 14:28

Yes. I know that you would replace hunchback.

Chrissy: 14:30

I would actually replace both.

Sara: 14:33

Yes. I'm vindicated I'm vindicated.

Chrissy: 14:36

go. I mean, I'm glad that hunchback is out of the way and we never have to watch it.

Sara: 14:41

Got it. Cool. All right. What Pixar movie do we wish we had watched then? What would we want to replace bolt?

Chrissy: 14:48

Monsters Inc.

Sara: 14:49

Oh, I love monster sing so much

Chrissy: 14:52

I mean, technically I have that for your next question,

Sara: 14:55

it's cool.

Chrissy: 14:56

but cuz my favorite Pixar movie is Coco.

Sara: 14:59

Oh, I love

Chrissy: 15:01

I love Coco. So, so very much. What about you?

Sara: 15:04

What would I replace? Um, I think I would have to go with. Red Atuie

Chrissy: 15:10

Oh, I love

Sara: 15:12

I would like to do rat Atuie. That's just a fun one. And like, I'll tell you what, as soon as we pull red, Atuie I'm gonna be talking in a really bad French accent for half of that episode.

Chrissy: 15:24

I'll have to hone my French

Sara: 15:26

I'm gonna leave mine shitty. So

Chrissy: 15:28

all, all. I know how to say in French. Actually, I know a few things, but the one that I remember off the top of my head is VU SA from

Sara: 15:40

I want some cheese, please. Yes.

Chrissy: 15:43

that was the first thing I learned when we booked our honeymoon Paris,

Sara: 15:47

I love that. The only thing I know, I think is mom petite shoe, my

Chrissy: 15:52

have

Sara: 15:52

cabbage, and I only know it. Because there's a shoe store in Baltimore. Mal petite shoe.

Chrissy: 15:59

I love it.

Sara: 16:00

And then I just think it's really weird to call someone your little cabbage as like a term of endearment.

Chrissy: 16:05

it. I

Sara: 16:05

His cabbage is, are stinky.

Chrissy: 16:07

I'm gonna call you my little cabbage from now on.

Sara: 16:10

Yay. I wanna know the most times you wrote fuck in your notes.

Chrissy: 16:17

I cannot confirm because I don't know where all of my notes are. Some of them were scrolled in little notebooks everywhere. Um, but I'm gonna probably say it was hunchback.

Sara: 16:29

Yep.

Chrissy: 16:30

Like what the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? How the fuck? How the fuck? What the fuck?

Sara: 16:36

Why the fuck is responsible for this? Why the fuck did they think this was a good idea?

Chrissy: 16:42

Yeah,

Sara: 16:43

When the fuck is someone going to be held responsible? So Do you have any closing thoughts for our season? Like how was it doing a podcast for the first time?

Chrissy: 16:53

Well, this was fun. Let's do, let's do it

Sara: 16:57

I'm a big fan I will say is way more work than I anticipated.

Chrissy: 17:03

more work. I think we've also overdone ourselves on the doing more work than we need to part like the number of podcast episodes we've recorded and not published.

Sara: 17:14

Yeah,

Chrissy: 17:15

Swamp

Sara: 17:16

they will stay in the vault. we have evolved very nicely.

Chrissy: 17:20

we have

Sara: 17:21

What do you hope we pick for, uh, our first, uh, movie of the season, season two.

Chrissy: 17:27

something sweet and almost kind. And he was co and he was mean, and unrefined

Sara: 17:35

it. Oh God. I wanted to be, to be so bad.

Chrissy: 17:38

me too.

Sara: 17:39

Oh,

Chrissy: 17:40

There's much to unpack there. Like, it's gonna be like little mermaid where we love it and we're so enamored, but holy shit, there's a lot of fucked up shit.

Sara: 17:50

lots of like Patty, her Stockholm syndrome. Um, I hope I just, I want a freaking Pixar movie. I am desperate for a Pixar movie. I want to pull that. I wanna

Chrissy: 18:02

the the percentage of Pixar to Disney though. That's why it's, that's why it is.

Sara: 18:09

I know, but I'm like at least what in a season for Christ sakes. Um, I really hope we pulled toy story.

Chrissy: 18:16

that would be okay.

Sara: 18:17

I like toy story.

Chrissy: 18:18

It'd be nice to Fantasia is the only one that has an animated feature sequel. So like we can't add a sequel in until we've watched the original

Sara: 18:27

Yeah. I think I'd like to pick toy story. Or just for Disney, I would like, oh yeah, have a sequel. I wanna pick the rescuers so I can get to the rescuers down under, because I wanna talk about everyone's true. Disney princess, Joanna.

Chrissy: 18:43

I don't remember watching the rescuers down under.

Sara: 18:47

Oh girl. We're gonna talk about Joanna one day. Woo.

Chrissy: 18:50

Oh, you know what? I really wanna pull because I wanna watch it. And now we're in a point of this podcast where I can't watch it until it is pulled for the podcast, black caldron.

Sara: 19:00

I know,

Chrissy: 19:01

That's gonna be like epic. I mean, it's either gonna be terrible or amazing. I don't know.

Sara: 19:06

I have sought that movie out since I was a like child, child. Nine 10 years old. I want that movie. It's going to be awful.

Chrissy: 19:18

it's gonna be really fun to see how it compares to hunchback. Cuz I've heard it's real dark

Sara: 19:24

Oh

Chrissy: 19:24

and if I hate it, I won't be surprised, but if I love it, gonna be weird.

Sara: 19:30

Hmm. I am, I am excited for this. I am very stoked.

Chrissy: 19:35

All right. Well, I think that's our episode.

Sara: 19:38

well that's the end of our show guys. That's the end of season one. I'm Sarah Ferrell baker. You can find me across social media at Sarah Ferrell, baker, Chrissy woes. Where can we find you on the.

Chrissy: 19:52

You can find me on Instagram at quirky, Chrissy and Twitter at quirky underscore Chrissy Follow along with us next season when we'll be discussing. Who knows until then you can find us online@mousesearsandamovie.com on Instagram and TikTok at mouse Sears and a movie and on Twitter at mouse ear movies.

Sara: 20:11

See a real soon.