 Welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten VHS Tales, but before we get started, what are we drinking? You're drinking Count Bocula, a traditional German Boc. He's all pissed? Yes. He all can't flop, like turn into the bat or anything. Gonna half turn into a bat and then just pass us out. Today we're gonna be talking about a non-horror movie entry, Mel Brooks's Life Sting. Which is kind of like a forgotten Mel Brooks movie. It never gets mentioned in the same breath as like, you know, Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles. No one ever talks about Life Stings, and it's actually a pretty fun movie. So much so that we played it as kids. Now to fill you in, the plot is that Mel Brooks is this big millionaire businessman and it's between him and like a rival businessman who want the same piece of land that's all slump. You can last a week living like these people live. He's like, yes I could. And suddenly it turns into a legit bet and if Mel Brooks's character can do it, then he gets that land. So the movie's about him basically living like a bum. You feel like a bum when you watch it too, right? You get to live in kind of the sort of squalor in the back lanes and the cardboard boxes like he does, right? For some reason for us, it was kind of like adventurous and fun. We would go out and dress like a bum as a kid and like wander around the neighborhood and like pretend to be a home listener. What kind of game is that? How can that be fun? You wanna ask me where we ever got the idea for that shit? I was in my Kung Fu The Legend Continues phase and you know, Kain and Kung Fu was kind of a vagrant himself. He's got that flute and I had some flutes strapped to my back like Kain from Kung Fu. Were those rags? Were these like my parents had some torn up jacket? It was all in the garbage and everything that I took it is that gray one with those woolen arms on it. Remember that? Took that and it was all where it was all ripped to shreds. Now that we think about it, it's like what the hell would we do? Of all the games to play. Play life. Let's play a bum game. It was kind of fun. But the movie is pretty charming actually. A lot of good characters in Life Stinks. Yeah. Oh the characters are the hallmark of the movie. Like Sailor? Oh Sailor! Yeah! It's like oh poor Sailor. You know when he's all dying and coughing and everything and aww. You feel for all of them right? There's that big rainstorm and all the kind of cardboard boxes that everyone lives in is being washed down the street. There goes the neighborhood. Yeah! Yeah! Because literally. Literally. There goes the neighborhood. Yeah. Oh and that's one of those movies. I taped off a TV. The editing for the swears is like so bad. Like I was remembering the you son of a bitch. But the edited version is you son of a begonch. They cut it in the middle of the word? I guess they're trying to put gun in the middle of bitch. And it's neither. It's just begonch. Yeah. It's all terrible. What kid would you know nowadays that would want to tape a Mel Brooks movie off a TV? If you remember Life Stinks and kind of like think it's an underrated comedy like we do let us know. And if you played bum too let us know in the comments and until next time keep drinking.