Oscar Isaac's Greatest Role! (Lenny the Wonder Dog)

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Michael Winslow of the Police Academy movies wanted to make a children's film specifically for his kids. And for some reason, Michael Winslow had some sort of sway over actors. They got Kathy Kenny.

[00:00:12]Craig Ferguson. Oscar Isaac plays Detective Fartman.

[00:00:15]>> He doesn't even fart.

[00:00:17]>> Holy Saba.

[00:00:18]>> This is a movie born out of love. And I can't I can't Wow. Look, it's Moi the Wonder Dog.

[00:00:35]>> Moi the Wonder Dog. Look, it was a movie about you.

[00:00:39]>> Wow.

[00:00:40]>> Wow.

[00:00:41]>> Wondrous.

[00:00:42]>> Wondrous. Wondrous to behold.

[00:00:46]>> He lays on the frame. You can kind of see his butt.

[00:00:52]>> The Wonder Doctor.

[00:00:55]You know, until 2026, every dog was R-rated.

[00:00:59]>> Every dog was R-rated.

[00:01:01]>> The rest of the movie is all Rs and PG-13s and everything else, and there's nothing for parents to take their children to it.

[00:01:07]>> Now, we have Moi.

[00:01:09]>> Finally, a dog. It's not cursing up the plate.

[00:01:13]>> Finally, a dog for kids.

[00:01:15]>> Talking. You can hear me?

[00:01:18]>> I'm definitely hearing you.

[00:01:19]>> Jesus. Mary and Joseph. Lenny the Wonderdog was a movie that came out in 2005. It was uh from >> filled that large large gap of no children's movies.

[00:01:31]>> There's no children's movies.

[00:01:33]>> Absolutely none.

[00:01:34]>> Sometime before 2005, actor Michael Winslow >> decided he hated children.

[00:01:40]>> He hated children. Michael Winslow of the Police Academy movies. He's the guy that does the sound effects. You know who he is. It's very subtle, but you know, they hint at that a little bit in this movie.

[00:01:51]>> This film may allude to his past in Police Academy.

[00:01:55]>> Hey, isn't that the guy from Police Academy, >> Lenny? Not one word.

[00:02:00]>> But Police Academy is not a child-friendly film, which is why they expect the children watching this to understand.

[00:02:06]>> Yes, >> I think you'll find the presentation very, very stimulating.

[00:02:12]Michael Winslow was like, "There are no movies for children. Absolutely no movies kids can enjoy. Every once in a while you get a Spy Kids or an agent Cody Banks. Otherwise, 2005 hard Rs.

[00:02:27]Nothing but hard RS all the time."

[00:02:29]>> I looked around out there and I noticed that with my children there wasn't enough for them to see. I mean, you know, there's the occasional good movie like your your Spy Kids and there's an occasional Cody Banks. If you're lucky, you get a couple of those every every year. So, I will put forward my best effort and get it together and try to give everyone some alternatives and something to see.

[00:02:49]>> So, he set out to make his own movie for kids that his children could enjoy. And >> but he did not succeed.

[00:02:56]>> To do that, he had to create a production company, Winslow Productions.

[00:03:00]This is their only production as far as I know. And they created Lenny the Wonder Dog. All about a dog that is injected with a smart microchip >> by Miles Dyson himself from Terminator 2. So, we know that chip has Skynina in it.

[00:03:18]>> It's not every day you hear that you're responsible for Lenny the Wonderdog. He took it pretty well.

[00:03:24]>> I feel like I'm going to throw up.

[00:03:26]>> That's why he has all the information about everyone cuz this chip comes preloaded with personal info about everyone the dog looks at. Where is this guy stealing this info?

[00:03:36]>> Stay together.

[00:03:46]Evil Dr. Vagner wants to steal the chip to control the world. But there is a little boy named Zach and a little girl named Becky who have teamed up with a cop played by Michael Winslow. And they are going to thwart him. And for some reason, Michael Winslow had some sort of sway over actors because they got a lot of people in this.

[00:04:05]>> He called in some favors.

[00:04:07]>> He called in some favors. He had some dirt on some people because I don't know. He got two people from the Drew Carey show in on this in 2004, and they were still pretty big names at that point. I mean, Craig Ferguson still is, but Craig Ferguson plays the villain in this. They got Kathy Kenny as the news reporter.

[00:04:23]>> They got one scene of the two of them together. They got one scene of the two of them together where they clearly just told them to improv because they had them. So they just say nonsense for a while.

[00:04:33]>> Mhm.

[00:04:34]>> Did you have a special skill? Yes, I did. I used to juggle things. I used to like to take cats and uh hamsters and occasionally an eagle.

[00:04:44]>> That might have been the majority of Kathy Kenny's bits, too, where she's just talking about like all sandwicher cookies were stolen.

[00:04:51]>> She just made it up. In a related story, the stolen cookies have been found in the basement of Principal Waters's home.

[00:04:57]Half the cookies are missing and presumed eaten.

[00:05:00]>> Yeah, it's possible it was just improv on her part, except for the parts that were plot important, >> but they have her fill in a lot of gaps and that's just like, what do we do? I don't know, cut to her on the TV, her wood panel news from the 70s. When they do the interview with her and Craig Ferguson, they awkwardly cut from that to another news report where she's wearing a different outfit because that's when the actual plot stuff happens.

[00:05:24]>> Mhm.

[00:05:25]>> Strange.

[00:05:26]>> Ew. Continuity.

[00:05:28]>> Who else did they have that was wellknown in this? They had the guy who played the scientist.

[00:05:31]>> Andy Richtor.

[00:05:32]>> Andy Richtor plays Lenny the Wonderdog.

[00:05:35]He was not wellknown at the time, but very funny. Oscar Isaac plays Detective Fartman.

[00:05:40]>> Mhm. I think it has something to do with the dog's dog, sir. I think this has something to do with the apparent shut up.

[00:05:48]>> Truly the uh crown in his jewel jewel.

[00:05:51]The jewel in his crown. What do you call it? Crown jewel. The jewel in his crown of his resume.

[00:05:57]>> I guess that's just the way the chromos cookie.

[00:06:00]>> I mean, what are we going to do with you, Zach Dylan?

[00:06:03]>> He's all somehow Michael Winslow's return.

[00:06:07]>> Detective Fartman. There's no reason for him to be named. He doesn't even fart.

[00:06:12]No. If anything, the chief should be called Detective Fartman because when he's introduced, then Michael Winslow makes a fart noise at him and starts doing the little >> Now, this is the chief of police.

[00:06:25]Give it up for Officer Don Win.

[00:06:29]>> I bet Oscar Isaac thinks of this often.

[00:06:31]He does make fun of it sometimes. He does.

[00:06:34]>> Yeah. Apparently, he talks about it.

[00:06:35]He's like, "Yeah, I was just barely out of acting school and I was Detective Fartman. I don't know where Fartman comes from. I don't know why I was Fartman, but he was Fartman.

[00:06:43]>> Which four movies do you think you are known for on IMDb?

[00:06:46]>> I'm going to go with Lenny the Wonderdog.

[00:06:49]>> No.

[00:06:50]>> No.

[00:06:50]>> Oh, >> you know, he made the most of this role.

[00:06:53]I did enjoy the Harley and Fartman scenes. There was a recurring clown in them.

[00:06:57]>> Yeah, there's some clown killers.

[00:07:01]>> A background plot.

[00:07:03]>> It's like in The Office where they have the strangler plot happening in the background. Strangler. Yeah. There's some sort of clown killings happening then.

[00:07:11]>> Cheers. That's not funny.

[00:07:14]>> Clown.

[00:07:16]>> You're a >> You know who doesn't talk about this movie? Andy Richtor. Cuz he doesn't like Conan.

[00:07:24]>> Conan, please. He'll punish me.

[00:07:30]And I did. Lenny the dog. Andy, you better not have done Lenny the Wonderdog.

[00:07:37]>> No. Conan, >> I would never.

[00:07:40]>> Back in the day, I would have taken you out with my >> Hey, wa relax yourself, Terminator.

[00:07:44]>> What the do?

[00:07:48]>> So, Michael Winslow, I mean, the interviews for this movie are very funny because he talks about the fact he wanted to make a children's film specifically for his kids cuz he wasn't satisfied with the content that was coming out except for things like Agent Cody Banks. And knowing that Agent Cody Banks was somewhat of an inspiration for this makes a lot of sense because Agent Cody Banks was also unreasonably horny for a children's film. They have the premature ejaculation Capri Sun joke.

[00:08:14]>> What the hell? What the hell?

[00:08:17]>> What is going on? I'm not unconvinced that the singer was not named Angie after Angie Harmon as well.

[00:08:24]>> That's just my guess.

[00:08:25]>> Oh, why after her?

[00:08:26]>> Cuz she was in uh Agent Cody Banks. Oh, >> remember the all the hot and her jokes?

[00:08:32]>> It's so funny. Every time she entered a room, they played hot in her and then all the prepubescent boys had boners over her.

[00:08:38]>> Yeah, they had to cut the song before take off all your clothes.

[00:08:42]>> Yeah, even though they they weren't wearing a lot of clothes in that first scene. Maybe we should be reviewing Agent Cody.

[00:08:49]>> Give it what is >> I really hate.

[00:08:57]I think a lot of the strange tone of this film also could be explained by realizing that this was written and directed by two Israeli guys that seem to be trying to make this somewhat of a fusion of their culture with with America.

[00:09:11]>> They're talking about how they wanted to make sure it's very funny in the interviews.

[00:09:16]It's a kids movie. It has to be so funny. Everything should be funny. Even like random people should be funny. We decided that uh if we're going to make a kids movie, it has to be funny. We believe that every comedy should have every character in the movie, if it's the guy in the cash register, you know, or the guy pumping the gas or anybody has to be funny.

[00:09:38]>> You know, they injected humor into every scene was appreciated, seen, heard. Two of the villains are called Hanky and Panky. Come on.

[00:09:46]>> Hanky and Panky.

[00:09:49]>> Here's Hanky and Panky. Ridiculous.

[00:09:54]>> It's such a good joke. They're identical twins, but then one of them's so tall his head's always cut off.

[00:10:00]>> That's funny.

[00:10:01]>> It's funny.

[00:10:03]>> Just like the Oh, man. They do multiple Scooby-Doo chase sequences in here. You feel the children being patronized with every frame.

[00:10:11]>> They have them all mugging at one point, right?

[00:10:14]>> The Scooby-Doo chase. Doing the mugging.

[00:10:16]>> There's one point where Craig Ferguson starts talking to the camera, then a hand slaps him, which is apparently, I guess, us. the audience slapping you.

[00:10:23]>> I guess he does address us like he says like, "Hey, I can't take these guys seriously." That's funny.

[00:10:29]>> Did you get the dog?

[00:10:31]>> No. How could I take these people seriously?

[00:10:34]>> How many of these bad kids movies have we watched where there's an interview basically like that? Like all the kids movies are crap. I'm going to make a good one. And they didn't.

[00:10:42]>> It was much worse.

[00:10:44]>> Apparently, they came up with some weird fusion expression which is mostly just known from this movie. Holy saba.

[00:10:53]>> Holy saba.

[00:10:55]>> Holy saba.

[00:10:57]>> Holy saba. Holy saba. Holy saba.

[00:11:01]>> This is said quite a bit in this movie.

[00:11:03]This is not something that American children say.

[00:11:06]>> It's not something that Israeli people say.

[00:11:08]>> Constantly. They say this in unison like this is something everyone says.

[00:11:12]>> Yeah.

[00:11:13]>> Apparently like saba's a phrase they'll use in Hebrew but not holy saba.

[00:11:19]>> Yeah. Holy Saba is not a thing, but apparently it is a thing to everyone in this universe. But there seem to be a lot of things that are just done and accepted in this universe. This is kind of like their own thing, right? Like this is not our world. It's perhaps a parallel dimension.

[00:11:32]>> Sliders.

[00:11:33]>> Yeah. It's like close to our world, but not a world where boys walk around in question mark shirts. People randomly go into Spanish soap operas.

[00:11:47]Santa Maria >> that's funny >> opera music plays over >> cops they drop that part way through >> yeah they seem to get bored with that gag and move on to some other things >> it doesn't add real humor it's just like that's distracting that that's playing over Michael Winslow not doing much. And they even do a record scratch like it's really been interrupted by Fartman and the other guy, I don't know, interviewing a clown.

[00:12:26]>> Uh, one block, two half and a half.

[00:12:29]Sweet. Okay, chop chop. Double chop.

[00:12:30]Let's go.

[00:12:30]>> Michael Winslow's character is really getting big dogged by Fartman.

[00:12:35]>> Yeah, they're trying. Michael Winsland.

[00:12:37]This is just some regular cop, but for some reason his introduction scene, he's doing some kind of presentation about safety and some auditorium for kids, but he's not doing anything related to the slide behind him. He's just making his sound effects and EVERYONE'S LIKE GOING CRAZY.

[00:12:56]YES. YES.

[00:13:07]I love it. Like they're setting themselves on fire.

[00:13:11]Yeah. This is the greatest thing of my life.

[00:13:15]>> It's that TV fun house where they say the catchphrases. Yay. I'm Joe Piscapo.

[00:13:23]>> Once an audience likes a catchphrase, it doesn't always accept a new one.

[00:13:27]>> I'm from Jay-Z.

[00:13:29]>> Hello everybody. I'M JOE PISCOPOL.

[00:13:33]I DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN this presentation because he finishes this safety presentation to the school and then he goes backstage and then there's a singing parrot and like what is going on?

[00:13:43]>> Why is that the followup to that?

[00:13:45]>> Ladies and gentlemen, Ginger the opera parrot.

[00:13:51]>> But what about the dog?

[00:13:52]>> Right. Right. Uh don't worry about that.

[00:13:54]I've put Fartman and Harley on that.

[00:13:57]He's trying to become a detective, but he's not taken seriously by the people on the force. So, he goes to investigate these disappearances in town, which tie into the scientist that put the chip inside Lenny, the Wonderdog, and he takes some paw prints cuz he realizes a dog must have opened this window. They call him Ace Ventura, pet detective. All of the policemen laugh at him in unison, including Fartman.

[00:14:21]>> Hey, look who it is. Ace Ventura.

[00:14:26]make any good collars lately or were they leashes?

[00:14:32]>> It's truly the most humiliating. He's He's ready to die after that.

[00:14:36]>> Yeah, he's ready to He's like, "Take me now."

[00:14:39]>> He sees the kids. They're shadowed by the sun. He apparently thinks it's the angel of death and he's like, "I'm ready. Take me now.

[00:14:47]>> I'm ready.

[00:14:50]I'm ready."

[00:14:52]>> Razle sent us. HE APPARENTLY QUIT the force, went to the park, laid down, and went, "Kill me now, guy."

[00:14:59]>> He didn't change any of that by the end of the movie either, cuz he goes, "Take me now." And then he rides off on a motorcycle that had a helmet.

[00:15:10]>> It's been a good run.

[00:15:11]>> Like, remember my safety thing? Neither do I, cuz I didn't give you any information. Bye, kids. Just made noises and went, "Thank you. Yeah, Michael Winslow gets involved with this because the kids are sent by one of the other sidekicks to meet another sidekick who appears to be an Asian stereotype who's not Asian, but does some kung fu stuff.

[00:15:34]>> His name is Chunyong Yong Yingyang.

[00:15:37]Yingy Labovich.

[00:15:40]>> Then Michael Winslow is sitting in the same park that he's going to be in and then they think that he's that guy and then just decide to ignore the other guy.

[00:15:48]>> Yeah.

[00:15:48]>> And they hang out with the cop. You see the random guy in the park just doing martial arts. It's a lot like the Frying Ryan scene.

[00:15:57]>> You know what? All roads lead back to Flying Ryan.

[00:16:05]>> There's behind the scenes things that are going on that are on screen. You can see what's going on on screen. For instance, the scientist does not show up in the final scene. In the final scene, they just show a cardboard cut out of him and one of his little sidekick guys as if they were there, which seems to imply that they're dead.

[00:16:22]>> Yeah, he's dead.

[00:16:24]>> It seemed like they're acting like he's kidnapped, but we never see him alive after the opening scene.

[00:16:29]>> They didn't have him past the, you know, half day they had him for shooting.

[00:16:33]>> So, he died.

[00:16:34]>> So, they're like, I don't know.

[00:16:36]>> Dr. Island is still in a coma. Doctors at Newville Hospital say >> if you hadn't put Dr. Island in a coma, we'd have the chip by now. What he is doing was crimes against humanity and canines as well. So maybe it's better.

[00:16:49]>> It's really not clear what this chip can and cannot do. The backstory is that he and Dr. Vagner went to the scientist academy together and Vagner was kind of the evil scientist variety. So he got kicked out. But he wants to take the thing that the good scientist guy was working on, which was a chip that can train dogs automatically. So, if you just give them the chip, then they can do whatever ability you want them to do, like service dog type things, but apparently also it can make them geniuses. And it may or may not be able to allow them to talk. Kind of ambiguous at the end. It may be Lenny just could do that anyway.

[00:17:26]>> Yeah. You know, he loses the chip, but then he can still talk. So, >> yeah, they did take out the chip, right?

[00:17:33]>> No more talking Lenny.

[00:17:34]>> Lenny Dylan. That's a good name. I don't think dogs have last names.

[00:17:39]>> Holy Saba, Lenny, you can talk.

[00:17:41]>> Let's just keep it our own little secret.

[00:17:43]>> Oh, it gives him laser powers at one point, too.

[00:17:45]>> Yeah, he's got crotch laser.

[00:17:46]>> He does his crotch lasers, but only one time. He could have used this any other time in the movie.

[00:17:51]>> I think he uses it once after, too, and then he stopped.

[00:17:54]>> And when did he use it again?

[00:17:55]>> Just shortly after that. So, he uses the laser twice, I think, and then he forgets he has it.

[00:18:01]>> Pretty cool stuff. He's got all of this information that I don't know why or where it would be cataloged cuz he can see all this information about people like it's an episode of MTV's Next with a little text about them their interests and little comedic bits.

[00:18:15]>> Yeah, that dog needed to be staring at that teacher in her first shot where it's just focused on her chest.

[00:18:23]>> It's getting hot.

[00:18:24]>> Yeah, good kids move.

[00:18:27]>> They couldn't afford It's getting hot in here. They couldn't afford Britney Spears, which is why they added some dubbing over when Craig Ferguson is saying some lyrics to one of her songs because they realize they'd have to pay for it.

[00:18:39]>> So, they're like, I don't know, maybe the girl's thinking something at this point.

[00:18:43]>> My loneliness is killing me.

[00:18:45]>> H, >> what an article. I mean, >> with a nutcase villain like this one, >> still >> I'm going to be collecting royalties from the movie.

[00:18:54]>> Then we have Britney Spears at home at the end. Britney Spears at home. I have no idea with this concert. Craig Ferguson's plan is to take this chip that's used on dogs, but then use it on people on children so that they'll work for him and somehow he can rule the world and somehow this also ties into this concert. I'm not sure how >> the concert. Maybe that's the idea.

[00:19:18]>> He doesn't have the chip mass produced yet.

[00:19:21]>> No, I don't know what he's doing.

[00:19:22]>> He can't put his plan into action at this point. But there's one kid that they're experimenting on in his skyscraper/warehouse >> where he seems to be answering the same questions that Lenny was answering to prove that the chip has made him into a super dog.

[00:19:35]>> Tina Turner's real name, >> anime Bulock.

[00:19:38]>> Next question. What is Tina Turner's real name?

[00:19:42]>> This kid is just coincidentally a genius or do they already have a ship like this?

[00:19:46]>> Mhm.

[00:19:46]>> In which case, why do they need the dog?

[00:19:49]>> Yeah. It's unclear too if the concert at the end is supposed to be taking place in the school or if it is just the same auditorium and they're pretending it is someplace else. Vagner, he comes out to like talk to all of the kids. It's an audience primarily of children and then they offer them coupons for this cartoon rehabilitation center. There's this random running gag about cartoon rehabilitation that never comes to anything.

[00:20:12]>> I thought you kicked the cartoon habit.

[00:20:14]>> I did.

[00:20:15]>> Right. It'll get you two free sessions at the Cartoon Habit Rehabilitation Center.

[00:20:24]>> If anything, this movie seems very pro- cartoon because after they offer the cartoon rehabilitation, they introduce the singer with a cartoon and then they have several cartoon interstitials in this to cover up for shots that they didn't get. Yeah, they do use cartoons for establishing shots or a bunch of times they're just showing around the town and then there's just a big scene missing here with some big action sequence where they escape. It's just like we forgot to film this. So, here's this.

[00:20:54]>> I think it is not because they forgot to, but because they did not have the means or the know how to do this. The way they >> I don't think it's just forgot, but I mean obviously something happened and they didn't film the scene. the way that they've drawn this. There are so many identical scientists swarming them. It's like a scene from the Matrix, you know, where you have all of the Mr. Smiths coming in. But they're like, "Clearly, we can't do that." So, just pretend if we did do a cool fight scene. It's kind of like this.

[00:21:20]>> Mhm.

[00:21:21]>> You said that once you fought off 54 ninjas all by yourself.

[00:21:24]>> 54 ninjas, right?

[00:21:26]>> You're a police officer.

[00:21:28]>> I was.

[00:21:29]>> Wa! A ninja cop.

[00:21:34]He thinks he's Bruce Lee.

[00:21:38]>> One of the few real establishing shots you shows some skyscraper building and they show the top of it implying that's where Craig Ferguson is, but then he's in some dingy warehouse.

[00:21:49]>> They clearly have one warehouse they can film in. They also use it for this shack that the scientist sidekick friend is working in. And they make a joke about how it's much larger on the inside, like it's a TARDIS. But clearly this is just because that's where they had to shoot and they had to explain why it looked massive compared to where they were supposed to be. Just incredible stuff.

[00:22:07]The sound is also very good in there.

[00:22:09]>> Yes. Very.

[00:22:10]>> He mentioned a fellow scientist named Dr. Vagnner who started to play around with some of the experiments.

[00:22:16]>> I don't know how long they had Craig Ferguson to film for. Clearly, he was mostly shooting in this warehouse except for the very end. They have him walking around barefoot in this warehouse.

[00:22:24]>> They couldn't afford to give him shoes.

[00:22:27]>> He does a dance number. They showed this dance number in the trailer for this. We saw it at the beginning of another movie that we were watching. And the trailer was not even over yet before I'm like, I need to buy this film. I need to buy Lenny the Wonderdog. And I did not have any regret purchasing the film. It was much better than the one we were watching.

[00:22:45]>> Mhm.

[00:22:45]>> We got rid of that one.

[00:22:47]>> Yeah.

[00:22:47]>> It's called Junior Pilot.

[00:22:49]>> Not as funny as you might think it'd be.

[00:22:51]>> Nah.

[00:22:53]Kind of droney, >> but this one was worth it. The Craig Ferguson interviews were hilarious. He's basically just making fun of the movie.

[00:23:01]>> Any movie with a talking dog is a good movie. That's a rule that that exists in Hollywood. Does that say blockbuster you? That's what it says to me. Talking dog. Talking dog. A dog that can talk.

[00:23:12]Think of the endless possibilities.

[00:23:13]>> Yeah. At one point he's like, "Oh, I thought my kid could see this, but then again, I'm playing a villain in it, so maybe I should quit."

[00:23:19]>> Maybe not.

[00:23:21]>> I did want to do this movie because my son is two and this will be a good movie for him to see. except that I'm the villain in it. I don't know that that that actually makes sense now that I think about it. Maybe I should quit.

[00:23:32]It's too late.

[00:23:34]>> I feel like a lot of good actors got wrangled into shitty kids fair because they thought this time I'll make something my kids can enjoy.

[00:23:42]>> What was it? The Prince and the Surfer.

[00:23:44]>> Yeah.

[00:23:45]>> A Prince and the Surfer moment.

[00:23:46]>> Oh yeah. John Voy little child. Angelina Angelina.

[00:23:52]>> She loves watching Prince and the Surfer. Hi, I'm John Boyd and you may know me from some of the roles I've played in movies, but what you may not know is that I'm a concerned father. I know how important it is to give our children good view materials.

[00:24:07]>> I like too him making fun of the fact his character was supposed to be from Louisville apparently, but >> he just has his normal accent. Well, a British accent. I guess he's not using his normal accent.

[00:24:16]>> Evil British accent. He comes from Newville, which is a town in America, but he speaks like this because he went to college.

[00:24:25]>> They were probably like, "Can you do an American accent?" He's like, "No, I can do British." And they're like, "Cool. As long as it's not your regular accent."

[00:24:31]>> You hear that? They're like, "Can you do the accent you do on Drew Carey?

[00:24:34]>> Can you be Drew Carey, please?"

[00:24:36]>> Yeah. Can you be Mr. Wick?

[00:24:37]>> Can you be Mr. Wick? The evil Mr. Wick.

[00:24:40]And he's like, "Yes, I can."

[00:24:41]>> Yes. I thought Mr. Wick was already evil.

[00:24:45]>> After I resigned from Dr. Island's team at the Pavlov.

[00:24:48]>> He fired you.

[00:24:49]>> You say potato, I say potato.

[00:24:52]>> Potato.

[00:24:52]>> Tomato.

[00:24:53]>> Tomato.

[00:24:54]>> Let's call the whole thing off.

[00:24:56]>> Shut up.

[00:24:57]>> Sorry.

[00:24:58]>> It is kind of funny how little Lenny kind of factors into a lot of this movie. I mean, he does move the plot along. He does some stuff near the end, but it feels like a lot of things are the other characters doing stuff while the dog is nearby. Mhm.

[00:25:09]>> Considering he's a talking super genius dog, you would think he would probably factor in a little more, but >> yeah, he's kind of off in his own world a lot. Sometimes he's talking at them and they don't hear him because it's all voice over and they edit it later.

[00:25:26]>> Well, sometimes he's supposed to be talking to them and they don't react.

[00:25:29]He's like, "Hey guys, let's go." And then they're standing there not reacting.

[00:25:34]>> Uh, guys, I think we should get going.

[00:25:38]Zack.

[00:25:39]>> Oh my Zach.

[00:25:40]>> Well, canonically, it seems like he is hiding some stuff from them because if they knew his true thoughts, they would put him to sleep.

[00:25:47]>> Yeah, this dirty dog, I guess.

[00:25:51]>> Why can't just talk?

[00:25:52]>> Hey, kid. If you heard some of my new thoughts, you'd have me put to sleep.

[00:25:56]>> This dog is horrible.

[00:25:58]>> Andy, I saw you in Lenny the Wonder.

[00:26:01]>> You were disgusting.

[00:26:04]>> Worse than that Wii dog. Now, why are you bringing up the wiener dog from Norm?

[00:26:08]>> Because that dog says some horrible things just like you know Lenny.

[00:26:13]>> That's for all those people who've seen the Norm show.

[00:26:16]>> Okay, wiener dog got a surprise for you.

[00:26:20]It's your old friend.

[00:26:23]>> Make my passionate love to me.

[00:26:28]>> Oh, sorry. I referenced the Norm show.

[00:26:31]It was a random TV funhouse.

[00:26:34]I just didn't understand the connection other than a dog. Well, Nor McDonald liked voicing dogs and terrible kids.

[00:26:41]So, >> yeah, >> this is no vampire dog.

[00:26:44]>> Do you want some food? Is that what you need?

[00:26:47]>> Jelly.

[00:26:48]>> What did you just say?

[00:26:50]>> Strawberry jelly would be fine. Really, any red jelly.

[00:26:55]>> Oh, great.

[00:26:56]>> But they defeat the villain via getting him on the loudspeaker. Zach gets to be an exclamation point this time. The little girl, Becky, she publishes the story in the newspaper where he's shrugging cuz he's the town hero.

[00:27:10]>> Everyone applauds.

[00:27:11]>> They also kiss on stage after they save the day from Craig Ferguson. And then everyone applauds the back row standing O for this. Like this is a lot of jubilation for some two kids that none of these PEOPLE KNOW. YEAH, I DON'T GET THE CONTEXT of this. We just went to a concert and then there was audio ABOUT SOME GUY TRYING TO TAKE over the world cuz kids are dumb or something.

[00:27:36]>> So he's going to shove chips in every kid's head, which probably was never even that close to happening ever.

[00:27:42]>> I don't know.

[00:27:43]>> But how close was he ever to doing this?

[00:27:45]He didn't even have the prototype.

[00:27:48]>> Was he wearing shoes by the time he got to the concert or was he doing this raw dog the whole time?

[00:27:53]>> I know.

[00:27:55]>> A lot of questions. Why was Kathy Kenny's character in this? It seemed like they were creating a bigger backstory for her simply because Kathy Kenny was also in the Drew Carey show, but there was no narrative reason for this news anchor to be doing as much as she was doing.

[00:28:09]>> There like one bit where she finishes a story and then like getting a personal call and like you're still on the air.

[00:28:16]>> Be right back after these messages.

[00:28:20]>> Hello, >> Kathy.

[00:28:21]>> No, mom.

[00:28:22]>> Still live. Get off the phone.

[00:28:23]>> Got to go, Mom. I love you. Byebye.

[00:28:25]>> Cuz everything's got to be funny. Like, how do we insert a joke into this scene?

[00:28:30]We got to get a joke in here. All the kids are having an emotional moment talking about why they drifted apart as friends. Well, what if they said this like they were on a Spanish soap opera?

[00:28:38]What if we made the children say all of their lines in Spanish?

[00:28:42]>> That's great because they added black bars to it on this non-anamorphic DVD, so it's already black bars around the whole thing. It's like even smaller. Oh, gee. I hope they can make it even smaller than that.

[00:28:54]>> Yeah, a lot of weird technical things.

[00:28:56]We had to watch the whole thing like shrunken down. There was also a weird part during that first sound effect demonstration, whatever the Michael Winslow was doing. The police chief comes up and starts talking to them and for some reason this whole thing is in front of a green screen. Their stage is a green screen and then a sign language interpreter is there in the corner digitally added just for part of the scene. Who is seeing this? Why is this happening?

[00:29:20]>> Yeah, like this doesn't seem to be even televised. This just seems to be some kind of school assembly.

[00:29:26]>> Yeah.

[00:29:27]>> So, it's like, yeah, no one's seeing that.

[00:29:30]>> It was confusing that it was only part of the whole speech.

[00:29:34]>> Yeah. He finishes up and it's not there anymore.

[00:29:36]>> Yeah. I'm sure the sign language interpreter was really like, you know, interpreting Michael Winslow's text over there. She was just saying, imag Yeah, that's what she was doing.

[00:29:48]All the deaf kids in the audience, WE GET IT.

[00:29:56]GOD DAMN IT. STOP THAT.

[00:29:57]>> YOU THINK MICHAEL Winsow's kids saw this and they're like, >> "Good job, Dad.

[00:30:02]>> Dad."

[00:30:05]>> It's just like Spy Kids. It's just like cutting banks.

[00:30:09]>> Dad.

[00:30:10]>> Dad. Can we do the sound effects more?

[00:30:13]>> Dad.

[00:30:15]>> I like they referenced Police Academy directly.

[00:30:17]>> Yeah. Isn't that the guy from Police Academy? Hey, isn't that the guy from police academy?

[00:30:22]>> Lenny, not one word.

[00:30:24]>> You want to ride before bed?

[00:30:27]>> TAKE ME DOWN.

[00:30:29]>> Capri son.

[00:30:31]>> Kids be horny. Am I right?

[00:30:42]>> Well, is there anything else about Lenny the Wonder Dog you'd like to discuss, Bail? Now that we've ended on a low note, >> are we missing anything dumb that happened?

[00:30:51]>> It feels like we're probably missing dumb things.

[00:30:55]>> Hi, to Matthew here with a dumb thing that Allison forgot, but she wanted to say, so that's why I'm here. So, the film does a Charlie Brown thing with the parents. They're completely off-screen characters, but they want to do this thing where Zach has to sneak Lenny the Wonder Dog past the parents because the mum is allergic, you know, because that's a cliche in kids films.

[00:31:16]>> Zack, is that you? I'm making your favorite. Thanks. I love you.

[00:31:21]>> All right.

[00:31:22]>> But that's not the weird part. You see, the movie doesn't want the parents to be characters because they would get in the way of the plot. So, they need to get rid of them. So, they just decide to go off on holiday. And I don't just mean Zach's parents, Becky's parents as well.

[00:31:35]The two sets of parents go on holiday together and leave their children behind.

[00:31:41]>> Listen, Zach and ladies and gentlemen, this is important. We're going on vacation for a couple of days with Becky's parents. Your uncle, that clown, he'll be staying with you.

[00:31:49]>> Zach, are you ready?

[00:31:51]>> Your parents are on vacation with my parents. And they do this while the town is under a space of child abductions that turns out to have been Hanky and Panky stealing kids for Dr. Wagner to experiment on. I know Katherine O'Hara, RIP, left her kid home alone, but at least she gave a It's not like she said, "Here, fend for yourselves. Don't get kidnapped." This is just insane.

[00:32:16]This is preposterous. This is ridiculous. I'm not kidding. THIS MAKES ME ANGRY. OH GOD. It was like every square inch of footage had to be dumb.

[00:32:26]>> So much so much dumb.

[00:32:30]>> But it's enjoyable dumb. I'll say this.

[00:32:32]If you find a copy of Lenny the Wonderdog, it's worth picking up. I'd recommend it.

[00:32:37]>> As long as you're ready to run.

[00:32:39]>> As long as you're ready for Holy Sab.

[00:32:42]>> You know what? The reason we have so many nonh hard movies these days is because Lenny the Wonderdog watched so they could run.

[00:32:49]>> It's true. It really changed the landscape of cinema.

[00:32:52]>> You wouldn't have all of these great films. You wouldn't have your K-pop demon hunters and have Lenny the Wonder Dog. Kids couldn't watch anything until Michael Winslow paved the way. Story by Michael Winslow. You didn't quite iron out what that chip was supposed to do, but it's all right.

[00:33:08]>> That's why I see like on Sesame Street it says based on Lenny the Wonderdog by Michael Wins.

[00:33:14]>> Sesame Street did exist prior to 2005.

[00:33:17]>> I think not.

[00:33:19]It was going into hard R and then they realized >> they pulled back.

[00:33:23]>> They pulled back.

[00:33:25]>> This needs to be based more on Lenny the Wonderdog.

[00:33:27]>> I love too they do this big speech at the concert at the end about how kids can pave their own way. They're not that dumb. They're really smart.

[00:33:35]>> Maybe people have given up on children.

[00:33:37]But listen to this, Dr. Wagner. That does not mean we can't care for ourselves. We'll make our own future if we have to.

[00:33:44]>> Way to go, Zach.

[00:33:45]>> You can tell that it's because Michael Winso wanted that in there. as an empowerment moment. And you know what?

[00:33:51]He was right. I feel really empowered.

[00:33:53]If I'd seen this as a child, I would have felt like I could do anything. And he said, "What do you think, kids?" And I'm like, "Dad, >> dad, there's a pop quiz."

[00:34:04]The five plot points. What were Hanky and Panky doing at 12:05?

[00:34:10]If >> you don't have this movie memorized, >> you're grinding and you'll have to stay in and watch it again. punishment movie.

[00:34:20]Oh, you kids were bad. Guess what's going in? Lenny the Wonder.

[00:34:24]>> Whenever they misbehave, he's like, "You think Lenny the Wonderdog would be approving of what you're doing right now?" They're like, "You're right down."

[00:34:32]Hi, surprise.

[00:34:35]>> DALING, HOW COULD YOU? WHY DO YOU THINK I TOOK YOU TO ALL THOSE POLICE ACADEMY MOVIES FOR FUN? WELL, I DIDN'T HEAR ANYBODY LAUGHING. DID YOU?

[00:34:44]>> WHY WOULD YOU KIDS say Holy Saba like IT'S A THING? SAY IT LIKE IT'S a thing.

[00:34:50]>> The thing is this is a movie thing is Holy Saba.

[00:34:53]>> Holy Saba. This is a movie born out of love. And I can't I can't >> You don't have to be so cynical. I >> I want to be cynical. EVERYBODY'S CYNICAL. WHY can't I be cynical?

[00:35:06]>> Bailin, do you recommend Lenny the Wonderdog to anyone?

[00:35:09]>> 10 out of 10. Stay away from it.

[00:35:13]>> The movie delivers in every conceivable way on every imaginable level. This movie is a PhD level course in getting it exactly right.

[00:35:23]>> Lenny the Wonderdog. Easy.

[00:35:26]Next.

[00:35:27]>> It should be. It should be, but it's not.

[00:35:29]>> I say go for it. Find the wonder. Holy Saba.

[00:35:35]>> HOLY.

[00:35:37]>> JESUS. Mary and Joseph.

[00:36:16]Holy Saba.

[00:36:19]>> Why do you look so scared?

[00:36:22]Why are you so scared looking? You don't like being that high up. You like being held.

[00:36:26]>> Yeah.

[00:36:28]>> Once you're scared in the thumbnail, it looks like we're abusing you.

[00:36:32]>> A yawn. He doesn't care.

[00:36:36]>> So bad. Just wanted to hit you with that.

[00:36:40]>> He's still stink breath in me. Stink breath.