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Orca & The Philadelphia Experiment II (Air Date: 6/27/98)
🕑 Added 2023-02-12 03:37:42 +0000 UTCHappy Splatterday Night, Patreon Pals!
Tonight’s episode is a bit of a mystery. It has Rusty during the first movie and Reno in the 2nd. i asked JB why that was, and he said “Never happened. The tape must be mislabeled.”
So, I looked it up online, and this is exactly how it aired that night. i updated him with that info, and he still said “Impossible! Reno was never on Last Call!” Yet…here we are. With actual evidence of her being on Last Call. 🤔
I’m guessing this was done in the transitional period when Reno quit and Rusty came in, and someone just spliced the eps together thinking no one would notice. And I reckon no one did…Till now! 🥰 There’s also some hot blackboard action for ya in the 2nd movie, which I think must hsve been a precursor to his Summer School eps.
Enjoy this wee bit of historical weirdness, and if you have another theory (or any actual knowledge!) of how this Mail Girl Mixup could’ve happened I’d love to hear it!
Here are the Time Codes for ya:
Orca
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First segment: Before the flick (or between them if you're doing the authentic MV double-feature)
Second segment: About 24:51 in after the blackout and before the shot of the moon.
Third segment: About 44:34 in after Nolan looks out to sea.
Fourth segment: About 52:22 in after the zoom to black.
Fifth segment: About 1:02:56 in after Nolan shouts "You win!"
Sixth segment: About 1:11:16 in after the shot of the whale swimming by.
Seventh segment: About 1:20:23 in after Nolan says "Tomorrow will be the day."
The Philadelphia Experiment II (segments start at 20:33)
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First segment: Before the flick (or between them if you're doing the authentic MV double-feature)
Second segment: About 18:31 in after "No, Stalin."
Third segment: About 32:12 in after the blackout.
Fourth segment: About 49:21 in after the long shot of the guard with the gun.
Fifth segment: About 56:13 in after "David, here you have no son."
Sixth segment: About 1:06:23 in after David gets out of the truck and starts walking.
Seventh segment: About 1:20:27 in after the white out.
Eighth segment: After the flick.
Comments
Jonathan Ruggiero
Does anyone know who the actress who played Reno was?
JB is in rare form here. And the crew interacting with him makes it funnier! This is golden.
EZ Rider
I always wondered what these ladies Joe Bob described would look like if his standup act got it's own 90s sitcom like everyone else back then. Guess we'll never know will we?
GeddyLeeRoth
A summary of Orca by Weird Al on VH1 I Love the 70s always stuck with me. “Bo Derek went from a 10 to a 7.5!”
Thought maybe it was the original Philadelphia Experiment II showing from 9/6/97 but it absolutely is not. It is exactly as it appears, two different mail girls on the same night. His outfit doesn't change between the movies, and he makes mention of the upcoming Summer School series which precludes the possibility that the episode was a reairing of the 9/6/97 show. That said, you can go back five weeks to 5/23/98 for the airing of Godzilla/Godzilla vs. Mothra and find Reno in the Godzilla episode, and then Rusty in the Godzilla vs. Mothra Last Call complete with bumpers that feature Reno. Go back two more weeks to 5/9/98 and you'll see Reno in the Genesis II episode, but move forward one week to 5/16/98 and it's Rusty during Warlock: The Armageddon. I would assume that they recorded a complete episode (two movies) per shooting session, but obviously I don't know that, so if they were shooting a single movie per session, and the sessions were on different days, you could theorize that Rusty was filling in when Reno was unavailable and eventually they decided to transition completely to Rusty who was able to make all the recording sessions without issue. Also, I have quite a life going but now I've gotta go 'cause my wife, Morgan Fairchild, is calling me.
Wow, that sounds really interesting. Also, I haven't seen Orca in such a long time. Thank you!
Mr.Gary
Thank you!!!
Both solid AF fun flicks! Thank you for sharing this.
Joshua Sherwood
Thanks Darcy 🙏❤️
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