This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan put on their codpieces and fret over the innocence of teenage girls around David Bowie. Don’t get us wrong, we love this movie, but why does this charming children’s tale have a character named after the part of the anatomy responsible for transporting sperm? And why do so many sequences resemble sperm? And if all of these things are symbols for sperm, what does the Bog of Eternal Stench represent? We shudder to think…

Labyrinth (1986)

d. Jim Henson
w. Terry Jones

Starring
David Bowie
Jennifer Connelly
Brian Henson
Shari Weiser
Brian Froud
hundreds of puppeteers

Teenage Sarah journeys through a maze to recover her baby brother from a goblin king in this '80s coming-of-age fairy tale.

Things discussed in the show:

The Little Mermaid (Disney, Ursula, Ron Clements, John Musker, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois)

Babylon Berlin - Season 3 (Art deco, morphine abuse, noir, Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch)

Dark (Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari)

Mrs. Doubtfire (Chris Columbus, Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan)

Zoomer attention spans

The Devil all the Time (Antonio Campos, Donald Ray Pollock, Bill Skarsgård, Tom Holland)

Saw (James Wan, Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover)

Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel)

Children of the Corn

Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter, Jordan Belfort, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie)

The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, Steven Zaillian, Charles Brandt, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin)

Tenet (Christopher Nolan, John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki)

Midsommar (Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper)

Covid 19 talk

The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker)

Saved By the Bell (Sam Bobrick, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Dustin Diamond, Lark Voorhies, Dennis Haskins, Tiffani Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkley)

The Social Dilemma (Jeff Orlowski, Davis Coombe, Vickie Curtis, Tristan Harris, Jeff Seibert, Bailey Richardson)

Rabbit Hole podcast (Kevin Roose)

The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano)

The Terminator & Skynet (James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton)

Reply All QAnon episode #166 "Country of Liars"

PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman)

Fraggle Rock and the social contract between Fraggle and Dozer (Jim Henson, Karen Prell, Gerard Parkes, Kathryn Mullen)

Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Michael Allin, Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Queen)

Flesh Gordon (Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm, Jason Williams, Suzanne Fields, Joseph Hudgins)

Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheetleaders (Howard Ziehm, Vince Murdocco, Robyn Kelly, Tony Travis)

The Muppet Show (Jim Henson, Jack Burns, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz)

Mia Sara

Return to Oz was directed by Walter Murch (Gill Dennis, Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Brian Henson)

The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri)

Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)

The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)

The Phantom of the Opera

Evita (Tim Rice, Alan Parker, Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas)

H.P. Lovecraft / The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers & Carcosa

True Detective season one (Nic Pizzolatto, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, Tory Kittles)

Teenage girls protecting their virginity at all costs

Matthew 18:3 - “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."

The Bog of Eternal Stench

The maiden, the mother & the crone

Michael Jackson was up for the role of the Goblin King

Phil Collins

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel, Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger)

The helping hands

Surrealist film

Beauty and the Beast (1946) (Jean Cocteau, René Clément, Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély)

Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta

Stevie Nicks' fashion

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Mars

Iggy Pop and The Stooges / Steve's theory that Bowie ruined Iggy Pop

Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, James Lyons, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale)

Pinocchio

Grimms' Fairy Tales

The Hero's Journey (Joseph Campbell)

Dungeon's and Dragons

Xenomorph

M.C. Escher

Crossroads demons and Robert Johnson

The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, Frank Oz, David Odell, Kathryn Mullen)

Next Week: Leprechaun