Episode 95: Sam’s Notes

The Gate

  • ET?
  • Fuck this bike
  • This kid is number 2 around here
  • He looks really awkward standing in his own foyer
  • Walks into his sister’s room
  • Rockets!
  • Startled by pop music
  • No pleasure… (person tears out their own eyes in music video)
  • The table is set
  • Beckoned into the back yard that looks green screened for some reason
  • Evil Dead?
  • Climb into the tree house to scary music
  • Creepy doll
  • Fuck this tree and its house!
  • It’s just a nightmare, kid!
  • Shaggy dog
  • The nightmare tree is being removed… in extreme close-up
  • Geode falls out of the tree’s roots
  • These kids know about geodes
  • I don’t for a second believe this nerdy kid is into metal for real
  • Splinter!
  • There’s something in this hole, but more importantly, a geode the size of a watermelon
  • Al is dumping out all her rockets
  • “Quite calling me Al, my name is Alexandra!” Why am I suddenly hearing Paul Simon in my head?
  • Moths flying out of the hole?
  • “Hey man, that’s cruel.”
  • Because Al says there won’t be any problems, there will absolutely be problems
  • Glen is grounded because of the hole?
  • Al sure seems happy
  • There’s something weird about the hole
  • Look son, Terry is a dumbass…
  • Thanks Dad, I always appreciate you telling me my only friend is fucked up.
  • Remind me why we’re afraid of moths?
  • Ah, Shaggy Dog is named Angus
  • Mom still calls you Al too
  • Because teens will party
  • So many side-ponies
  • “Hey, somebody get this dog a beer!”
  • All of these teens appear to be in their mid 20s
  • Where is Glen during all this?
  • This boy looks like trouble
  • Terry is trying to cut into the giant geode
  • And then Glen cracks open the geode and purple smoke pours out
  • Weird marks on this tablet… you should definitely say it outloud because, Evil Dead
  • And now the party teens are telling scary stories
  • And now for the party levitation
  • The jock wants to levitate Glen
  • And then he actually does levitate, so that’s cool
  • Al checks herself in the mirror
  • Terry gets up in the middle of the night
  • Giant moths!
  • Glen is getting spooked by everything
  • Terry sees his dead mom
  • Terry is such a dupe
  • Glen sees things crawling around his walls
  • And Terry realizes he’s been dancing with Angus
  • Who is dead
  • Terry comes home, Dad is out on business
  • Glen with the sick burns!
  • Terry thrashes to metal
  • I like the Optimus Prime in the corner of his room
  • The Dark Book! So, Evil Dead?
  • Terry sees connections
  • Al is going to leave Glen by himself
  • Glen looks at the Angus photo album
  • So Glen was going to give Al a rocket launcher
  • That bug zapper is working overtime
  • Terry arrives just as Glen is running out
  • Terry has a theory
  • Obviously it’s demons
  • The Dark Book is a bible for demons
  • Terry checked? How?
  • Terry knows exactly what’s going on
  • Just don’t put the dog in the inviting hole in the backyard
  • Good job bro!
  • “We accidentally summoned demons who used to rule the universe to come and take over the world.” 38:56
  • I spent all my money. On what? Foreshadowing.
  • So, Al only had like, $10?
  • “Demons aren’t going to ring the doorbell.” 41:09
  • Terry found the shotgun
  • We found the Thunderbolt!
  • Awful lot of namecalling
  • Al has regrets
  • Not entirely clear why Glen is reading this book backwards
  • The creatures have risen!
  • Moths break the window!
  • That’s not Terry
  • Angus is melty
  • These hands are grabby
  • Probably not Mom and Dad
  • Love that face melty effect
  • So yeah, demons
  • Little demons
  • The phone got melty
  • Fun family portrait
  • And then the book burns, so that sucks
  • “We’ll find something.” “Yeah, we went to Sunday school!” 52:26
  • The door over the gate is melty too
  • They try to read bible verse, but the gate is pissed, you can tell by the leaves
  • It’s working!
  • Psych
  • And Terry falls into the hole
  • Terry gets swarmed by the little demons
  • Terry tries to climb out
  • Terry tosses the bible into the hole
  • There’s fire at least, that’s good, right?
  • The power comes back on in the house
  • The hole is gone… right?
  • Where are the girls?
  • They’re wearing garlic
  • Why does one household have that much garlic?
  • Gee, why is the front door open?
  • Just boys
  • Al kicks everyone out
  • Glen likes his sister
  • Playing around with the geode
  • Body falls out of the wall
  • The zombie grabs Terry and walks off into the walls
  • Things are definitely not right
  • Those symbols on the walls
  • The zombie walks out of the mirror in Al’s room
  • Al hits it with a stereo and it drops and breaks into a bunch of the mini demons
  • Get Dad’s gun!
  • Glen unzilps the gunbag and finds Terry inside
  • Terry bites Glen’s hand
  • Al stabs demon Terry in the eye with a Barbie
  • Of course she drops all the shells
  • The zombie is back
  • The zombie grabs Al and drags her into the wall
  • Glen is alone
  • The foreshadowing will save us!
  • The floor of the house falls away as Glen hops over it
  • Glen grabs the launcher and the Thunderbolt
  • Matches suck, electric launching is the way to go
  • The little demons crawl out of the hole
  • And here’s the big demon
  • Now that is some stop motion stuff!
  • It’s toying with you!
  • It’s petting Glen on the head?
  • And now he has an eye in his hand
  • All we need now is a chainsaw…
  • There’s a Daredevil poster on Glen’s wall
  • Smoke is spewing out of the gate into the sky like a twister
  • Banana power!
  • Creepy doll
  • Moths…
  • Where is this going?
  • Glen wants it to take him instead
  • Glen stabs his hand-eye
  • Glen finds the foreshadowing
  • This house is a mess. Mom and Dad are gonna be pissed.
  • Cool hell-pit, dude
  • I mean, the box has a picture of a little remote, so I feel like false advertising, but we’ll let is slide
  • Demon daddy is back!
  • Happy Birthday Al!!!
  • Nailed it
  • Sweet motion blur effect
  • And then the demon blows up and launches Al out of the house
  • Pretty fireworks
  • We live in Egypt now?
  • Nevermind
  • Angus is alive! And Pet Cemeteries aren’t a thing, I swear.
  • Al and Terry are back
  • So I guess we’re homeless now
  • Is that Terry’s shoe?
  • Clouds