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Highlight Bits & Quotes
7Soccer Boppers: A One-Shot Metaphor for Religious Loss
Margaret and Dale pitch their film 'Soccer Boppers', a one-shot, one-location movie about two Christian boys fighting to the death, which they claim is a deep metaphor for losing religion.
"It's really a metaphor for people losing their religion."
"The movie is more fun than a pillow fight."
"I know you are, but what am I?"
AutoZone: The Land of Car-on-Human Romance
Hester and Scoby describe their 12-year project 'AutoZone', a surrealist film where cars age 20 human years annually and engage in beautiful, gravity-defying sexual encounters with women.
"It's Zootopia meets Cars 2 meets Car Wash meets Marriage Story."
"That's how sex works in AutoZone, is that the cars are on top of the women."
"We are some pretty strong nepo babies."
The Soccer Bopper vs. Socker Bopper Mandela Effect
The panel debates the true name of the inflatable boxing toy, leading to a reveal that Margaret and Dale produced their entire film over Skype and Zoom without ever being in the same room.
"I'm having a Mandela thing happen where now it's been revealed to me that they're actually Soccer Boppers."
"Nelson Mandela was behind this."
AutoZone Employees Turn Movie Creators
Scoby and Hester explain how they were discovered by the CEO of AutoZone during a snowstorm and were hired to write a movie about the 'AutoZone world' while still earning hourly retail wages.
"We're automakers first."
"We're paying hourly wages for the AutoZone."
The Cameo Casting Crisis
The filmmakers discuss using the Cameo app to cast Billy Crystal and Lizzo. They debate how to edit around Lizzo's legal allegations in a one-shot film without violating the artistic form.
"I want to green screen her Cameo into another person's Cameo, maybe a dog."
"Any interpolation of the form is a violation of the one-shot and I will have to commit suicide."
The AutoZone Movie and the Car Dads
The Scottsdale brothers describe their experimental AutoZone film, featuring a car that ages in real-time and test screenings for 'car dads' who write questions on their fingers.
"AutoZone is a Zone and that it is different than all types of places."
"They have so many questions they put it on their fingers and we go please sit on your hands."
The Slap Chop Horror Sequel
The group wraps up by pitching a horror movie featuring the Slap Chop that defends the patriarchy, while the Scottsdale brothers mistake a dog for LBJ's ghost.
"I started writing a horror movie featuring the Slap Chop."