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Episode #730: Young Einstein (Patreon)

Published:
2024-03-26 04:00:02
Edited:
2025-08-21 18:46:32
Imported:
2026-06
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“If you are not 100% always entertained by [Yahoo Serious] you are fucked for good with this movie!” - Chris

On this week’s episode, the 2024 Listener Request Month comes to a close with a discussion about the well-made (craft-wise), but incredibly stupid comedy, Young Einstein! How much of a banger is this soundtrack? How gorgeous are these panoramic shots of Tasmania? How many times can Yahoo Serious fall through or off something in this movie? How funny is that little Critters-esque Tasmanian Devil costume? And come on, what are the odds a Cat Pie is a real dish? PLUS: An extended analysis of Jake Gyllenhaal not bathing. Young Einstein stars Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard, Peewee Wilson, Su Cruickshank, Roger Ward, and Basil Clarke as Charles Darwin; directed by Yahoo Serious.

We hope you are enjoying Ad-Free WHM! Thanks so much for being the kick-ass Patreon subscriber that you are—your support keeps the lights on around the old clubhouse and allows us to continue doing these shows! We know you have a lot of options for podcast enjoyment and we're stoked you chose to spend some time with us!

Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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johnny stocker

Oh yeah, I remember that Yahoo Serious moment in time...the weirdness of the late 80s/early 90s is underrated.

Scott Ferris

As a young Australian kid seeing this in the theatre confused me.

Queen Taru

Yes! I remember loving this movie but I think I only watched it twice because my mom HATED it and threw the vhs out of the car window on the freeway.

Ray

I really wish this movie was entertaining. And in night vision.

Ajax

surprising amount of man ass in this children's movie...

John Locke

Been looking forward to this one. Haven't seen this film in over 30 years. I'm sure it's not as good as I remember.

Milan Davidek

Trying to rewatch this the other day w my gf (same age but she never saw) was utterly humiliating. Made it less than 15 minutes.

Nathan Lemire

Sounds like you got yourself a real Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter problem on your hands..

Andrew Dean

Big Pig also did Breakaway - the opening song in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Matt Reid

Never saw it when I was young, but tried a few months back to watch it. I was actually excited to see it, but did the same and turned it off after 15 minutes.

DMAC

Things I remember from this movie: making beer with bubbles, and Yahoo Serious plays a bitchin guitar solo to defuse an atomic bomb.

Eren Keskin

As Einstein once said, Vegemite is more important than knowledge

MarkNM

Oh that cheeky humor.

MarkNM

Thank goodness. I was starting to think that if no one specifically requested the VHS Trailer Game, it wouldn't be part of the month.

Matt

Please send this to the mailbag. I am CACKLING at this comment

Felipe Sobreiro

I don't know if you guys acknowledge it in the episode but I just found out that Preston, the dandy villain in this movie, is the same guy who played THE PEOPLE EATER in Mad Max Fury Road (!)

Matt Reid

So excited about Sheen month! Hoping for The Wraith, but also The Rookie, Terminal Velocity, The Arrival, and Beyond the Law would all be great movies to do.

Matt

I've never done heroin, but hearing the VHS Trailer game theme song makes me feel like Vincent tying off at Lance's house

Phillip

Somehow I assumed Yahoo Serious was the Australian Yakov Smirnov, so was very surprised to discover this movie being halfway competent, still pretty bad, but nowhere near what I was expecting.

Kuato (and the freedom brigade)

The wraith would be great! I just watched it recently and the whole "this is as close as I could get to looking like my old self" part is goddamned hilarious 😂

Paul DeCoursey-Clark

"Speaking of erect nipples!" The new trailer game motto. And I am starting every conversation today with this. Confusing the hell out of my wife.

Kevin Lynch

This movie needs Bruce Spence

John Edwards

This episode's setting up the inevitable end of season match between We Love Hot Dogs vs. We Hate Cakes, and I'm all here for it.

jribs

As a big baseball fan, I’m very excited for Major League. As a big WHM fan, I’m very excited to hear the gang’s take since none of them like baseball very much.

Matt

I swear to god I thought this movie starred Yakov Smirnov until this morning

Craig

Never thought I’d see the day when WHM would be talking about Big Pig! Even in Australia they’re largely forgotten.

Craig

As an Australian, I’ve been looking forward to this one. You can rest assured that his home country forgot about Yahoo Serious just as quickly as the rest of the world. (Reckless Kelly had hype but was universally panned even down here as I recall)

Renee Maunder

I hope they take some comfort from Wake in Fright (my Dad's favourite film since he saw the original in theatres) still being watched, and this is not.

Justin Shaw

The Chase, with Henry Rollins playing a cop!!!

Cooper87

As an Australian I was very disappointed with Oppenheimer for their false history and spreading false information, cause we all know that young Einstein is the true story.

Tim Batson

Eric is correct. Pie > Cake

Craig

Have they ever covered Wake In Fright? I remember it being mentioned on another episode, possibly in the context of a film they expected to be terrible and were shocked it was good.

Dan sulin

You guys joked about the “summer of Batman” but you guys were just a little too young to remember just how insane “Batman fever”’got that summer. The movie was huge. Merch was fucking everywhere. Every UHF and Basic cable station seemed to be marathoning the 60s show . Malls and department stores would pay guys to dress up as Batman and do “autograph” signings to get people into stores.

Smaug

I don't want to meet Steve anymore after hearing his pie take, j/k

RJ Cunningham

Anyone see X-men 97 episode 3 yet? This is the sickest fucking show I’ve experienced in years. Imagine if they made the Marvel movies like this? I’m kinda bummed Xmen can’t just be in their own separate cinematic universe and will inevitably be crammed into the Avengers mold

Jamie

Kind of amazing that yall have never covered W.

Tim O'

"GAME MASTER'S CLUE." "*Now* I'm hard." I love you guys lmao

Todd B

That reruns beat, taken with the knowledge that West campaigned for years after the show ended to still be Batman for a big budget movie, had to have stung just a little.

Todd B

Spence was probably the guy that blocked Serious from being in a later Mad Max movie. Serious goes in, sees Spence coming out of the audition and thinks "Welp. There goes my shot."

Todd B

As soon as I heard that, my first thought was "Is he hinting there's gonna be a Gene Hackman movie in this round?"

Christopher James

I’m going through the past archives lol so I am happy I have some good episodes to come back to like this.

jribs

Ah that's right! I should have known from the Night Game episode. Yankees or Mets?

Felix Forrester

Thank you for reminding me to keep pestering y'all to do an episode on Wake In Fright, my second favorite movie of all time.

Kevin Matthews

I saw this at the cinema. I was young. I . . . well, I didn't hate it. A recent revisit showed that I should have maybe kept it in my memory, but it certainly tries to be quirky and fun throughout.