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Hosts: Steve Koch & Lovella Koch
Kids vs Parents is produced by Vandalpop Media
Producer: Steve Koch
Editors: Ever Cunningham, Steve Koch
Cover Design: Patrick Hardy
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Okay,
Lovella:quick four-word clue to start us
Lovella:off.
Lovella:What spooky movie
Lovella:is
Lovella:this?
Lovella:Orphan
Lovella:discovers
Lovella:magical
Lovella:world.
Steve:Oh, um, Harry Potter.
Lovella:Yes.
Steve:Nice.
Lovella:Welcome to Kids vs
Lovella:Parents,
Steve:the family trivia battle with four questions for the kids and four
Steve:tougher ones for the parents.
Lovella:I'm Lovella
Steve:and I'm Steve.
Steve:Today
Steve:we're continuing our spooky season by playing our Guess the Plot game.
Lovella:Oh,
Steve:are you having fun
Steve:in spooky season so far?
Lovella:Yes, I am.
Steve:Halloween costumes all
Steve:prepared
Steve:yet?
Lovella:Pretty much, pretty much.
Steve:Bags
Steve:of candy ready to go?
Lovella:Oh, they're
Lovella:so ready.
Lovella:I haven't had candy in so long.
Lovella:I'm like
Lovella:ready to stuff.
Steve:House
Steve:decorated?
Lovella:No,
Steve:no.
Lovella:Well, here's
Steve:a thing: we don't decorate.
Steve:We don't decorate.
Steve:We decorate for
Steve:Christmas.
Lovella:Yes, we decorate for those joyous holidays.
Steve:Yes, we put our money on the
Steve:Christmas.
Lovella:Yeah, all we have for Halloween is just white pumpkins, and they're not even
Lovella:scary.
Steve:No offense to the people who do
Steve:decorate for Halloween.
Steve:It's
Steve:yes, it's very fun.
Steve:No, it's very cool, and we do love wandering around the neighborhood and
Steve:seeing the
Steve:Halloween
Steve:decorations.
Lovella:You guys
Lovella:can make it like
Lovella:really
Lovella:cute,
Lovella:or you guys can go full on horror.
Steve:We saw a giant inflatable cat
Steve:on the roof, like a black
Steve:cat
Steve:on the roof of
Steve:someone's house in the neighborhood.
Steve:I've
Lovella:seen a
Lovella:huge
Lovella:giant
Lovella:skeleton
Lovella:coming out of like
Lovella:backyards
Lovella:before.
Lovella:Yeah, oof, crazy!
Steve:All right,
Steve:spooky season.
Steve:We're into it.
Steve:We're doing
Steve:our
Steve:spooky movies theme today.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Guess the plot
Steve:is all
Steve:spooky movies.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:And
Lovella:today's
Lovella:prize:
Lovella:the
Lovella:winner
Lovella:gets to choose the spooky movie to watch as a family
Lovella:for the next family
Lovella:movie night.
Steve:Fun!
Steve:I'm
Steve:excited.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:Excited.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Let's
Steve:do
Steve:this, shall we?
Steve:Who's going to play first?
Steve:Parents, parents are
Steve:up
Steve:first.
Lovella:You've been alive longer for all these spooky.
Lovella:Thankfully, you've made it through and you've been alive.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:All right.
Steve:So
Steve:these
Steve:spooky
Steve:movies—they're spooky movies for kids.
Steve:They're not super scary ones, but the parents' movies
Steve:can
Steve:be some spooky movies.
Lovella:I'm just gonna let you know.
Lovella:I'm not a
Lovella:horror or
Lovella:like
Lovella:scary movie person.
Lovella:Like I can
Lovella:deal with it a few times, but
Lovella:also that's just
Lovella:not me.
Lovella:I
Lovella:like the happy movies.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:Or the funny ones.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:So I've
Lovella:only ever seen The Nightmare Before Christmas and Hocus Pocus
Lovella:Two.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:They're your scariest movies.
Steve:I mean, Harry Potter is kind of oh, and I've seen Harry
Lovella:Potter, but like
Lovella:Halloween
Lovella:themed.
Lovella:That's
Lovella:really all I've seen.
Steve:Yeah, there
Lovella:might be something I'm missing, but Harry Potter does
Steve:get scarier as you
Steve:watching.
Steve:All right, so the parents are up first.
Steve:Then let's
Steve:get into this, shall we?
Steve:Parents.
Lovella:All righty, here we go.
Lovella:Plot number one:
Lovella:Winter
Lovella:vacation
Lovella:turns
Lovella:terrifying.
Steve:Winter?
Steve:What was it?
Steve:Winter.
Lovella:Winter
Lovella:vacation
Lovella:turns
Lovella:terrifying.
Steve:Winter vacation turns
Steve:terrifying.
Steve:Ah!
Steve:Winter vacation turns terrifying.
Steve:I don't
Steve:really know this one.
Steve:No.
Steve:Is it?
Steve:Go on a holiday?
Steve:A cabin in the
Steve:woods?
Lovella:Is that your guess?
Steve:That's my guess.
Lovella:You're incorrect.
Lovella:It was
Lovella:The Shining.
Steve:Oh, I have not seen that movie in a
Steve:long,
Steve:long
Steve:time.
Steve:I have never
Lovella:seen
Lovella:probably any of these movies.
Steve:You wouldn't have.
Steve:I hope you haven't seen any of these movies.
Steve:They're probably too scary.
Lovella:Yeah, I'm not a scary
Lovella:person.
Lovella:I
Lovella:I can't handle
Lovella:horror.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Okay.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:Are you ready?
Steve:I'm
Steve:ready.
Lovella:Second
Lovella:plot.
Lovella:Broken rules create monsters.
Steve:Broken rules create monsters.
Steve:Um, boy,
Steve:I don't know this one
Steve:either.
Steve:Have I?
Steve:Do you think I've seen this movie, Lovella?
Lovella:Dad, I have no idea.
Lovella:You haven't.
Lovella:You don't know.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:You don't know.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Broken rules
Steve:create
Steve:monsters.
Steve:Nah, I have no idea.
Steve:I'm going to guess.
Steve:Final
Steve:destination.
Lovella:Incorrect.
Lovella:It was
Lovella:Gremlins.
Steve:Oh
Steve:yes, I have seen this movie.
Steve:I love this
Steve:movie.
Lovella:Oh, that's gotta hurt.
Steve:That does hurt.
Steve:Yes, of
Steve:course.
Steve:Broken rules create
Steve:monsters.
Steve:That's the
Steve:perfect
Steve:clue for that movie.
Steve:I don't
Steve:believe I didn't get it.
Lovella:Wow, that's gotta suck.
Steve:I'm
Steve:so
Steve:disappointed in
Steve:myself.
Steve:I really want to
Steve:introduce you guys to Gremlins this
Steve:Halloween.
Steve:Maybe I can
Steve:convince
Steve:you.
Steve:It's not super scary.
Steve:It's kind of
Steve:PG
Steve:thirteen.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Maybe I'll watch it first
Steve:and just make sure.
Steve:I'll watch it.
Steve:I'm doing a pre-watch.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Are you ready for
Lovella:the third
Lovella:plot?
Steve:I got to get on the board here.
Steve:Come on.
Lovella:Okay, plot number
Lovella:three:
Lovella:boy
Lovella:sees
Lovella:dead
Lovella:people.
Steve:Okay, I know this one.
Steve:Finally, thank you.
Lovella:Are you sure, though?
Lovella:Are
Steve:you
Steve:sure?
Steve:I'm fairly confident.
Steve:Boy sees dead people.
Steve:This
Steve:is
Steve:the sixth
Steve:sense.
Lovella:Correct.
Steve:Yes.
Lovella:Good job.
Steve:M.
Steve:Night
Steve:Shyamalan.
Steve:I
Steve:don't know if I said his name right.
Steve:He's got a
Steve:trend of doing these like
Steve:movies that have these
Steve:crazy twists in them, like
Steve:that you
Steve:you don't often
Steve:see coming.
Steve:So I'm not going to spoil this movie for
Steve:anybody.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:Crazy twist.
Lovella:All right, here we go.
Lovella:You ready for the last plot?
Steve:Yes, I'm ready for the last one.
Lovella:All right, here we go.
Lovella:Plot number four:
Lovella:Paranormal
Lovella:experts
Lovella:save
Lovella:Manhattan.
Steve:Okay,
Steve:paranormal experts save
Steve:Manhattan.
Steve:This is a set in New York.
Steve:This has got to be
Steve:Ghostbusters.
Steve:This has got to be Ghostbusters.
Lovella:Correct.
Steve:Yay!
Steve:Finally, I got one
Steve:right.
Steve:This is my first one, right?
Lovella:No, you got the
Lovella:last one right.
Steve:Did I?
Steve:What was the last one?
Lovella:The Sixth Sense.
Steve:Oh yeah, I got that one too.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:So you got two out of four.
Steve:All right, two out of four.
Steve:Finally.
Lovella:Who are you going to call?
Steve:Ghostbusters.
Lovella:That's all I know about Ghostbusters.
Steve:I want to introduce that one as well.
Steve:That's
Steve:another good one we could watch too.
Steve:Okay, parents, I did okay.
Steve:Fifty percent,
Steve:two out of four.
Steve:I'm doing okay.
Steve:Hope you did better than
Steve:me,
Steve:kids.
Steve:You are up
Steve:next.
Lovella:Woo!
Steve:Get your popcorn ready.
Steve:It's time to
Steve:experience some spooky movies.
Steve:All right, all right, kids.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:Spooky movies.
Steve:Plot number one.
Steve:Friendly
Steve:ghost meets girl.
Steve:Friendly ghost meets girl.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:Um.
Lovella:So I think I.
Lovella:I think
Lovella:yeah.
Lovella:I'm pretty
Lovella:sure
Lovella:this is
Steve:a pretty big clue in this one.
Lovella:Casper.
Steve:Why?
Lovella:Because
Lovella:there's a ghost that's really friendly named Casper, and
Steve:the friendly ghost.
Lovella:The friendly ghost.
Lovella:Casper.
Steve:The friendly
Steve:ghost.
Lovella:Yes.
Steve:You are correct.
Lovella:Hey.
Lovella:Let's
Lovella:go.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:Good job.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Plot number two.
Steve:Fake
Steve:uncle
Steve:seeks
Steve:fortune.
Lovella:Okay, fake uncle
Lovella:seeks
Lovella:fortune.
Steve:Fake uncle
Steve:seeks
Steve:fortune.
Lovella:Okay, I think this is Hotel Transylvania.
Steve:Ooh,
Steve:I haven't seen that one.
Steve:Have you seen
Steve:either?
Lovella:But I know it has.
Lovella:No, I know it's like
Lovella:about a vampire and
Lovella:stuff.
Lovella:And okay, I feel
Lovella:I thought
Lovella:it was like connected to the Adams family and
Lovella:some.
Lovella:Oh wait, maybe it's the Adams family.
Lovella:Wait, fake
Lovella:uncle
Lovella:seeks
Lovella:fortune.
Steve:Okay,
Lovella:I feel like it's
Lovella:Hotel Transylvania or Adams Family, but I'm gonna go with
Lovella:Hotel
Lovella:Transylvania.
Steve:You
Steve:are
Steve:incorrect.
Lovella:It
Lovella:was
Steve:the Adams Family.
Steve:Dang
Steve:it!
Steve:You haven't seen the Adams Family?
Steve:No, I haven't.
Lovella:I've seen the Adams Family Junior play
Lovella:for
Lovella:one of my friends.
Lovella:Okay, right.
Steve:Yeah,
Steve:performance.
Lovella:Yeah,
Lovella:performance.
Lovella:But it wasn't like the
Lovella:movie.
Steve:No, they changed the plot.
Steve:Oh, did they?
Steve:Right.
Lovella:Yeah, they changed it, and it wasn't right.
Steve:Is Uncle Fester in it?
Steve:Uncle
Steve:Fester is yeah
Steve:fake uncle.
Lovella:Oh, he's the fake
Lovella:uncle.
Steve:Yeah, yeah, he's the fake uncle.
Lovella:Didn't
Lovella:say that.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Anyway, all right.
Steve:Let's move on
Steve:to
Steve:plot number three.
Steve:Boy
Steve:enters
Steve:spirit
Steve:world.
Lovella:Okay.
Steve:Boy enters
Steve:spirit world.
Lovella:This one is Coco.
Steve:Straight up.
Lovella:Straight up Coco.
Steve:Yeah, you think?
Lovella:Yes.
Steve:You are correct.
Steve:I know,
Steve:obviously.
Steve:Well done, Coco.
Steve:All right.
Lovella:I love
Lovella:Coco.
Steve:That's a good one.
Steve:They're
Lovella:making Coco Two.
Steve:Oh, they are.
Lovella:Yeah,
Steve:I didn't know that.
Lovella:Yeah, they
Lovella:announced
Lovella:it at D twenty
Lovella:three.
Lovella:Oh.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Coco Two.
Lovella:It's not going to come out
Lovella:until
Lovella:like
Lovella:twenty twenty
Lovella:eight, twenty twenty nine.
Steve:Because they've got to
Steve:animate those
Steve:things.
Steve:They take like
Steve:five
Steve:years to animate.
Steve:But fun, Coco Two.
Lovella:Coco Two.
Steve:That'll be a fun one.
Steve:All right, here we go.
Steve:Last
Steve:one.
Steve:Plot number four.
Steve:Giant
Steve:rabbit
Steve:terrorizes
Steve:town.
Steve:Giant rabbit
Steve:terrorizes town.
Lovella:Have I seen
Lovella:this?
Steve:I think you have
Steve:seen it, but
Steve:maybe.
Steve:Like
Steve:years ago,
Lovella:giant rabbit terrorizes town.
Lovella:Yeah, like something's coming to me, but I also don't think it's going to get there in time.
Steve:I'll give you a little clue, even though
Steve:you're ahead of me
Steve:already.
Steve:Are you?
Steve:What are you
Steve:on?
Lovella:I have two.
Steve:You got Coco
Steve:right.
Steve:You got Casper right.
Steve:Yeah, didn't get Adam's family.
Lovella:So yeah, I have two.
Lovella:So you're
Steve:even with me at the moment.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:Maybe I won't
Steve:give you a clue then.
Lovella:Giant rabbit.
Lovella:I can't
Lovella:think of giant
Lovella:rabbit though.
Steve:I'm going to give you one clue.
Steve:I'm going to give you a clue.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:I'm going to be a good guy and give you a clue.
Steve:Claymation,
Steve:claymation, yeah.
Steve:So it's not quite animation.
Steve:It's a claymation movie.
Lovella:It's not
Lovella:Nightmare Before
Lovella:Christmas, right?
Steve:That's a good guess.
Steve:That's claymation.
Lovella:That's
Lovella:stop motion.
Steve:Same thing.
Lovella:Oh, same thing.
Steve:Claymation, claymation.
Lovella:But
Steve:yeah, there's
Steve:no part.
Lovella:I watched that.
Lovella:Like I watched that
Lovella:this
Lovella:year.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Well, does that plot work for
Steve:for it?
Lovella:I don't know because I don't think there's a
Lovella:giant
Lovella:rabbit.
Steve:Is there a giant rabbit?
Steve:There's
Lovella:Oogie Boogie, but I don't think he's
Lovella:a
Lovella:giant rabbit.
Lovella:All right, I have no idea.
Lovella:I'm gonna guess
Lovella:Nightmare
Lovella:Before
Lovella:Christmas.
Steve:Okay, you are
Steve:incorrect.
Lovella:Obviously,
Steve:it is
Steve:Wallace and Grommet: The Curse of the Weir Rabbit.
Steve:Do you remember that movie?
Lovella:Is that the
Steve:the giant rabbit that they build?
Steve:Like it's
Steve:they build like
Steve:a giant rabbit.
Lovella:Something's
Lovella:briefly coming
Lovella:to me.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Is that the one?
Lovella:The dog
Lovella:and the old
Lovella:and the man?
Lovella:Yes, yes.
Lovella:I never liked
Lovella:that.
Steve:The inventor.
Steve:Those guys.
Lovella:I found that
Lovella:everything creepy.
Lovella:I don't like those things.
Steve:It's great.
Steve:I love that kind of animation, though.
Steve:That style.
Lovella:Stop.
Lovella:I'm
Lovella:I'm okay.
Lovella:Normal animation for me.
Lovella:Thanks.
Lovella:I'm okay.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Well, you didn't get
Steve:the
Steve:that one, so we are.
Lovella:That's okay.
Lovella:We're
Lovella:tied.
Steve:We are tied
Steve:to
Lovella:a two out of four.
Steve:All right.
Steve:So
Steve:let's
Steve:move
Steve:to our tiebreaker round then, shall
Steve:we?
Steve:Bonus
Steve:or tiebreaker
Steve:round, depending on what it is in your car.
Steve:One.
Steve:Question: One plot.
Steve:First team to buzz in and get it
Steve:correct
Steve:wins the points.
Steve:But if you buzz in early, in you don't really know.
Steve:If you get it wrong, those two points go to the other team.
Steve:So
Steve:make sure you know it.
Lovella:Alrighty.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:Bonus
Steve:or
Steve:tiebreaker question.
Steve:Halloween creatures
Steve:make
Steve:presents.
Lovella:Buzz, Buzz, Buzz.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:This is
Lovella:Nightmare Before
Lovella:Christmas.
Steve:Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is.
Steve:I think you're right.
Steve:You just got in
Steve:early with the buzz.
Steve:Let me scroll
Steve:down
Steve:and
Steve:see.
Steve:Ah, yep, you are correct.
Steve:The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Lovella:They find
Lovella:Christmas
Lovella:Town.
Steve:They find
Steve:Christmas, and then
Lovella:they
Lovella:turn Christmas into their own.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:We actually have
Steve:a
Steve:Nightmare
Steve:Before
Steve:Christmas episode coming in the future.
Steve:Yes, a full episode
Steve:dedicated to that one.
Steve:Yes, so
Steve:for spooky season, so stay tuned.
Steve:Stay tuned for that.
Steve:But
Steve:congratulations, Lavilla and the
Steve:kids!
Lovella:Well done.
Steve:You have
Steve:won spooky movies, which
Steve:means you get to pick the next spooky movie we watch for family movie.
Steve:What do you think you're going to go?
Steve:Go with one of the ones we did today?
Lovella:Yeah,
Lovella:probably.
Lovella:I'll do Coco.
Steve:Coco.
Steve:Oh man, if I had a one, I would have done Ghostbusters.
Lovella:Yeah, obviously, you're just
Lovella:all Ghostbusters.
Steve:Yeah, I would have tried to
Steve:to get that one across the line.
Steve:Anyway, thanks for playing
Steve:spooky movies.
Steve:Guess
Steve:the plot.
Steve:Come back next week.
Steve:We're going to continue
Steve:our spooky season with a
Steve:very
Steve:highly requested topic.
Steve:Right, Lovella?
Lovella:Yes, it is
Lovella:zombies.
Steve:You mean the
Steve:creatures
Steve:that
Steve:walk around eating brains?
Lovella:Almost.
Lovella:It's more of a
Lovella:Disney version of the Disney franchise.
Steve:The Disney franchise
Steve:zombies.
Steve:That's
Steve:right.
Lovella:Very highly requested.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:We've had a lot
Steve:of
Steve:many
Steve:names.
Lovella:Yes.
Steve:Against
Steve:this
Steve:this episode on our spreadsheet, isn't there?
Steve:So
Steve:come back next week for that.
Steve:And if you're not
Steve:following, tap
Steve:that follow button.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:So that when
Steve:these episodes drop, you get a little
Steve:notification on your phone, or Mum and Dad does anyway, and they can say, "Hey, kids, you want to play this episode?".
Steve:And then
Steve:you go, yeah, we do, Mum.
Steve:And then we push play.
Lovella:All right, they get, they get, they get it.
Lovella:Yeah,
Lovella:yeah.
Lovella:Uh huh, uh huh.
Steve:All right, thanks for joining us on Kids First
Steve:Parents.
Steve:We'll see you
Steve:next
Steve:week.
Lovella:Bye.
Steve:Bye.
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