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Time for another trip down Choco's faulty memory files, and the scatter-shot approach I took to movie viewing as a youth. Today, there are a few titles floating around in the back of my brain:

First, a family movie I'm certain circulated on "Wonderful World of Disney" It took place amongst the mountain-folk, and concerned a young boy living with (I believe) his grandparents, who teach him some local hoodoo that allows him to create a psychic link with the animals in the forest around him, in that he saw through their eyes, and had some very limited control over them. I recall specifically him marveling at flying with a hawk, and a dicey situation where he has a wolf nearly attack him, and he persuades it to calm down (I also recall him finding it weird that the wolf was color-blind, and also that it was pretty crazy to me that he was looking at himself through the wolf's eyes). Hopefully that'll be enough to clue some people in.

Another, less savory film I saw late one night on cable tv. It looked to be made sometime in the late seventies or early eighties. It was about a sci-fi writer trying to finish a book he was writing, so he rented a room from a woman and her teen-age daughter to get some privacy to type away at all hours. He tells a friend that one of the things he wants to add to his draft is more sex, and more sex is what he gets, starting affairs with both the mother and daughter, and getting himself in a big mess. Occasionally we get glimpses of the book he's writing, and it's a bleak dystopic set tale of nomads wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland and getting into gunfights. An image of the hero encountering some mutant or whatever in a very narrow valley (like five feet wide) with very tall white walls sticks in my head. Probably not worth my time, but it's bugging me.

And finally, I'm bringing back one not answered previously, just in case we can figure it out this time. I rented a movie in the late 80's, when Troma was arguably hitting the peak in mainstream popularity, and this movie felt like a Troma released movie from that time. (It's not, I would know). There's a young man who the government and scientists convince has been bred to be a mutant superman (IIRC, he's not, though I don't recall why precisely they have this scheme.) I recall him having a matriarchal figure (Mother? Auntie? ) that dressed as a stereotypical old lady, only with a huge hat with fruit on it (not a Carmen Miranda style hat, a sunday church hat. But people, including herself occasionally pick a fruit and eat it) and my brain wants to have her have a blue-ish or purple-ish palor to her. She may or may not have been played by a man--It's been decades since I saw this, but it fits in my memory. The head scientist's daughter is purported to be the female counterpart to our hero, and the two are supposed to mate and start creating a whole new sub-species. The girl is a mega-slut, sleeping with everyone in the film--except our boy, natch. At one point, she gets kidnapped, and he tries to rescue her through a clever repairman disguise (A hat, overalls, and a fake mustache), only to also get captured. At this point, the duo do sleep together, but only because she has no idea who he really is. I recall minor characters in the form of a pair of identical twin scientists that are kinda bumbling. Also, I recall some running gag in the form of a joke everyone tells but we never hear all of. The punchline is something along the lines of "if you didn't get in the car, you wouldn't have gotten any points!"
Last time I asked about this one, noone had a clue, and kept pointing me to totally incorrect answers. Let's get it right this time!

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Nothing? Damn...

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Nothing from me, but have you checked out epguides.com? It has episode lists for tv series, Wonderful World of Disney included.

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okay, probably an easier one: A teen sex comedy from the late eighties. Our hero is a shy, kinda nerdy guy. He becomes haunted by the ghost of a skinemax style star, who decides to "get her wings" so to speak by getting the guy laid. I recall a particularly noxious moment where she tries to tell him that "No means Yes", leading to an assault...

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I'm fairly sure that's the wretched slop that is Meatballs 3. It used to play a *whole lot* on Showtime.

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And finally, I'm bringing back one not answered previously, just in case we can figure it out this time. I rented a movie in the late 80's, when Troma was arguably hitting the peak in mainstream popularity, and this movie felt like a Troma released movie from that time. (It's not, I would know). There's a young man who the government and scientists convince has been bred to be a mutant superman (IIRC, he's not, though I don't recall why precisely they have this scheme.) I recall him having a matriarchal figure (Mother? Auntie? ) that dressed as a stereotypical old lady, only with a huge hat with fruit on it (not a Carmen Miranda style hat, a sunday church hat. But people, including herself occasionally pick a fruit and eat it) and my brain wants to have her have a blue-ish or purple-ish palor to her. She may or may not have been played by a man--It's been decades since I saw this, but it fits in my memory. The head scientist's daughter is purported to be the female counterpart to our hero, and the two are supposed to mate and start creating a whole new sub-species. The girl is a mega-slut, sleeping with everyone in the film--except our boy, natch. At one point, she gets kidnapped, and he tries to rescue her through a clever repairman disguise (A hat, overalls, and a fake mustache), only to also get captured. At this point, the duo do sleep together, but only because she has no idea who he really is. I recall minor characters in the form of a pair of identical twin scientists that are kinda bumbling. Also, I recall some running gag in the form of a joke everyone tells but we never hear all of. The punchline is something along the lines of "if you didn't get in the car, you wouldn't have gotten any points!"


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