Silent Films Sleepers / Seasonal
Hello Kitty
https://keshoume.com/blogs/blog-posts/the-history-of-hello-kitty
https://kokorocares.com/blogs/blog/the-history-of-sanrio-meet-hello-kitty-cinnamoroll-my-melody-and-more
https://zenpop.jp/en/blog/post/5231/the-history-of-hello-kitty
High Concept
https://www.thenovelry.com/blog/high-concept-fiction
https://nofilmschool.com/what-does-high-concept-mean-story-ideas
https://www.arcstudiopro.com/blog/high-concept-vs-low-concept-whats-the-difference
The Haunted House
https://centuryfilmproject.org/2021/02/27/the-haunted-house-1921/
https://silverscreenings.org/2022/03/11/buster-keaton-and-the-haunted-house/
https://trettleman.medium.com/does-the-thread-of-the-haunted-house-comedy-begin-with-buster-keaton-72e6ea16b832
Facial Hair as “Evil”
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-prove-that-a-goatee-makes-you-look-evil-5914836
https://www.themarysue.com/study-goatee-evil/
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/609/origin-of-the-mustache-twirling-villain
DOWN TO BUSINESS
I just cleaned my unnamed car
Deep Dark Night United
Zach, Belinda (Helix Sleep)
PLUGS
WGA/SAG-AFTRA Strike Support; The Midnight Mission; Orlando Park Stop; Trevor Project; Patreon; SleepPhones; Emily Tat Artwork; NAPAWF; Anti-Racism Resources; Ukraine Relief; Crisis Textline
SPONSORS
HelloFresh; Odoo; Helix Sleep; Progressive
INTRO
The Old Thinking Thoughts
Sometimes I can’t sleep because of good stuff, too – I just don’t talk about it
Ruminations on Positive Things
My voice is not traditionally soothing
Borebae will be here for you
Oh, this show can’t be gotten!
The audio equivalent of forgetting what you’re looking for
I found a Hello Kitty lampshade prism in my dad’s garage
“Above the Lampshade” – Phish
I give Phish full permission to use my Gingerbread Press titles for song inspiration
Prism Lamp Finial (PLF)
Recreating the lamp finial discovery experience
I’m not sure if this was finial was a sanctioned Hello Kitty product
Clinical Finial Packaging (CFP)
Our quirks are not mean to be hidden in the toolshed
Hi Kitten (a knockoff Hello Kitty)
I didn’t think that finial would be podcast gold at the time
A Slow Descent Into Sleep
STORY
A Seasonal Buster Keaton episode
Extremely High Concept
Did you come up with that concept when you were high?
Shoutout to Big Farm in the Sky PI
The House of Trick or Treating
The one I’m watching has plenty of film grain
The Palatial Parking Place of the Bull and the Bear
2-Reel Comedy Film
Some Comedy Short History
A ticket would feature a variety of programming
Some Buster Keaton history
A more simplistic era of comedic storytelling
Zooming down on Wall Street
Definitely Bustling
Buster Keaton falls out of the limousine and heads to First National
45 seconds in, and I’m already confused
Bottle Cap Door Lock?
It’s an old-school bank
My own visits to the bank are Buster-Keaton-esque
I don’t feel comfortable at banks for a variety of reasons
A plan I had to divide cash up amongst kids and adults on vacation
But people didn’t like the cash-reporting project I created
Buster Keaton goes to the safe
The vault is time-locked
A very tall mustachioed person
Equating mustaches with being evil
The heavies also have canes and walking sticks
A digression into my trail jogging
A lot of my European listeners like using poles in trail hiking
I feel fresh with my hiking poles
But I’m still getting used to them
3 people are walking with walking sticks
They want people to think this house is only for the trick part of trick or treating
I’m making an assumption that BK is not a heavy in this
Which clerk is photocopying money?
Holy Kevin McAllister
Proof Testing the Haunted House
Home Alone Level Traps in this home
They’re using the haunted house to print fake money
This sidekick looks like someone famous
Strawhat McGee comes out of the house
2619 on Somewhere Street
SWM’s First Mustache Swirling
BK is doing his clerking job
Failed Romance is a common trait in these BK movies
Some sort of transcendent romance going on …
The Transcendent Romance Trope
The spring-loaded vault opens
She takes a stack of money
The money looks more rectangular than it does today
Dorothy Cassil?
I’ve definitely been given the phone number 123-4567 before
When do we get to the trick or treating??
Mustache Twirler is talking with the bank president about fake money
4 more people come into the bank
Glue on the money leads to a hand-sticking sequence
Why is there glue in this bank? Duh!
This sticky situation keeps getting worse
BK has to cut his hair because his hand are glued to it
Is that Stan Laurel?
Using steam to free them from the glue
There’s ripped money everywhere in this bank
It’s always funny to see a man’s underpants
Mustache Twirler and 4 men are having a conference
They’re trying to steal the glue-y money out of the bank
People think BK is trying to make an unauthorized withdrawal
He tries to hide in the vault
Opera Company is doing Faust
A set falls down during this production
Theatergoers want a refund
He runs into the haunted house
He thought he saw something passing
A smoking gag book
Faust costumes are mistaken for Trick or Treaters
He’s moving through this “haunted” house
The trick stairs are taunting him
Banker’s daughter is following Mustache
BK runs into the red spandex character
A Staring Contest
A very Pee Wee chair
2 goons are making an animatronic
Wow, there’s so many quick gags here
A Sleepy Hollow Type Guy
A haunted blanket
Hey, I’m a cat person!
Socrates is in this room?!
BK found two trick or treaters who have treats
Mustache blows a whistle to stop everyone
Don’t put your head through the bannister like BK
He goes to surprise another trick or treater
Authority figures come in
A real Deus Ex Machina ending
BK figures out what’s happening
Banker’s daughter literally says, “My hero!”
Mustache makes BK take a nap
A dream world where he’s a Grecian
A Greek Dream Sequence
Literally climbing a long stairway to heaven
He tries to hand something to St. Peter
He slides down into Hell
But then he wakes up in the arms of the adult daughter
All is good!
Less stair gags would've been good
No music even in this film – totally silent
PATREON THANKS
Kelly, Bishop, Marco, Nick, Lauren, Claire, Chris, Evelaine, Krista, Matthew, Robin, Katie, Claudette, Tim, Robyn, Daniel, Katy, Carolyn, Polly, Anne, Dee, Garrett, Hayden, Annelise, Will, Tatianna, Jordan, Jonathan, Heather, Uliana
SUMMARY:
Episode: 1,199
Title: The House of Trick or Treating Buster Keaton | Silent Films Sleepers
Deep Dark Night United: Zach, Belinda (Helix Sleep)
Plugs: WGA/SAG-AFTRA Strike Support; The Midnight Mission; Orlando Park Stop; Trevor Project; Patreon; SleepPhones; Emily Tat Artwork; NAPAWF; Anti-Racism Resources; Ukraine Relief; Crisis Textline
Sponsors: HelloFresh; Odoo; Helix Sleep; Progressive
Patreon Thanks: Kelly, Bishop, Marco, Nick, Lauren, Claire, Chris, Evelaine, Krista, Matthew, Robin, Katie, Claudette, Tim, Robyn, Daniel, Katy, Carolyn, Polly, Anne, Dee, Garrett, Hayden, Annelise, Will, Tatianna, Jordan, Jonathan, Heather, Uliana
Notable Language:
- Borebie
- Hello Kitty-Like Prism (HKLP)
- Prism Lamp Finial (PLF)
- Finial
- Clinical Finial Packaging (CFP)
- High Concept
- Palatial Parking Place
- Holy Kevin McAllister
- Transcendent Romance
- C-A-S-S-I-L
Notable Culture:
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- Buster Keaton
- Ruminations on Positive Things
- Hello Kitty
- “Above the Lampshade” – Phish
- Big Farm in the Sky PI
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- WC Fields
- Roscoe Arbuckle
- Charlie Chaplin
- Wall Street
- Mark Hamill
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- Catherine O’Hara
- TikTok
- Instagram
- Stan Laurel
- Faust
Notable Talking Points:
- The Old Thinking Thoughts
- Sometimes I can’t sleep because of good stuff, too – I just don’t talk about it
- Ruminations on Positive Things
- My voice is not traditionally soothing
- Borebae will be here for you
- Oh, this show can’t be gotten!
- The audio equivalent of forgetting what you’re looking for
- I found a Hello Kitty lampshade prism in my dad’s garage
- “Above the Lampshade” – Phish
- I give Phish full permission to use my Gingerbread Press titles for song inspiration
- Prism Lamp Finial (PLF)
- Recreating the lamp finial discovery experience
- I’m not sure if this was finial was a sanctioned Hello Kitty product
- Clinical Finial Packaging (CFP)
- Our quirks are not mean to be hidden in the toolshed
- Hi Kitten (a knockoff Hello Kitty)
- I didn’t think that finial would be podcast gold at the time
- A Slow Descent Into Sleep
- A Seasonal Buster Keaton episode
- Extremely High Concept
- Did you come up with that concept when you were high?
- Shoutout to Big Farm in the Sky PI
- The House of Trick or Treating
- The one I’m watching has plenty of film grain
- The Palatial Parking Place of the Bull and the Bear
- 2-Reel Comedy Film
- Some Comedy Short History
- A ticket would feature a variety of programming
- Some Buster Keaton history
- A more simplistic era of comedic storytelling
- Zooming down on Wall Street
- Definitely Bustling
- Buster Keaton falls out of the limousine and heads to First National
- 45 seconds in, and I’m already confused
- Bottle Cap Door Lock?
- It’s an old-school bank
- My own visits to the bank are Buster-Keaton-esque
- I don’t feel comfortable at banks for a variety of reasons
- A plan I had to divide cash up amongst kids and adults on vacation
- But people didn’t like the cash-reporting project I created
- Buster Keaton goes to the safe
- The vault is time-locked
- A very tall mustachioed person
- Equating mustaches with being evil
- The heavies also have canes and walking sticks
- A digression into my trail jogging
- A lot of my European listeners like using poles in trail hiking
- I feel fresh with my hiking poles
- But I’m still getting used to them
- 3 people are walking with walking sticks
- They want people to think this house is only for the trick part of trick or treating
- I’m making an assumption that BK is not a heavy in this
- Which clerk is photocopying money?
- Holy Kevin McAllister
- Proof Testing the Haunted House
- Home Alone Level Traps in this home
- They’re using the haunted house to print fake money
- This sidekick looks like someone famous
- Strawhat McGee comes out of the house
- 2619 on Somewhere Street
- SWM’s First Mustache Swirling
- BK is doing his clerking job
- Failed Romance is a common trait in these BK movies
- Some sort of transcendent romance going on …
- The Transcendent Romance Trope
- The spring-loaded vault opens
- She takes a stack of money
- The money looks more rectangular than it does today
- Dorothy Cassil?
- I’ve definitely been given the phone number 123-4567 before
- When do we get to the trick or treating??
- Mustache Twirler is talking with the bank president about fake money
- 4 more people come into the bank
- Glue on the money leads to a hand-sticking sequence
- Why is there glue in this bank? Duh!
- This sticky situation keeps getting worse
- BK has to cut his hair because his hand are glued to it
- Is that Stan Laurel?
- Using steam to free them from the glue
- There’s ripped money everywhere in this bank
- It’s always funny to see a man’s underpants
- Mustache Twirler and 4 men are having a conference
- They’re trying to steal the glue-y money out of the bank
- People think BK is trying to make an unauthorized withdrawal
- He tries to hide in the vault
- Opera Company is doing Faust
- A set falls down during this production
- Theatergoers want a refund
- He runs into the haunted house
- He thought he saw something passing
- A smoking gag book
- Faust costumes are mistaken for Trick or Treaters
- He’s moving through this “haunted” house
- The trick stairs are taunting him
- Banker’s daughter is following Mustache
- BK runs into the red spandex character
- A Staring Contest
- A very Pee Wee chair
- 2 goons are making an animatronic
- Wow, there’s so many quick gags here
- A Sleepy Hollow Type Guy
- A haunted blanket
- Hey, I’m a cat person!
- Socrates is in this room?!
- BK found two trick or treaters who have treats
- Mustache blows a whistle to stop everyone
- Don’t put your head through the bannister like BK
- He goes to surprise another trick or treater
- Authority figures come in
- A real Deus Ex Machina ending
- BK figures out what’s happening
- Banker’s daughter literally says, “My hero!”
- Mustache makes BK take a nap
- A dream world where he’s a Grecian
- A Greek Dream Sequence
- Literally climbing a long stairway to heaven
- He tries to hand something to St. Peter
- He slides down into Hell
- But then he wakes up in the arms of the adult daughter
- All is good!
- Less stair gags would've been good
- No music even in this film – totally silent
