Friday the 13th The Final Chapter

Episode 238: Friday the 13th The Final Chapter (1984)

Theme: Gosh Barn It!
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, the "Gosh Barn It!" tour continues as Oz and Curtis head back to Crystal Lake for the 1984 slasher classic, Friday the 13th The Final Chapter. It’s a film that picks up exactly where the last one ended—with Jason "dead" in a barn—only to have him reanimate because he heard the faint sound of 80s teens thinking about premarital sex. Join the hosts as they discuss the tactical importance of a banana-grip, the "Tri-Pubic" era of Corey Feldman, and the greatest un-choreographed dance floor seizure in cinema history.

The hosts break down:

• The Jarvis Family: A surprisingly relatable and functioning family unit that includes a master-mechanic/mask-making child (Tommy) and a sister with a sixth sense for "echo-location" during a chase.

• Crispin Glover’s "Jimmy": A man who delivers a gift to the internet 20 years early by unleashing a series of limb-flailing dance moves that suggest his body is rejecting its own skeleton.

• The "Waffle House" Authorities: A law enforcement team that does a massive crime scene cleanup in under two minutes before presumably heading to breakfast, leaving the actual heavy lifting to a random hiker named Rob.

• The Banana Idiom: A deep dive into the hitchhiker kill that should have introduced "squeezing the banana" into the common American lexicon as a metaphor for finality.

• Tommy's Speed-Grooming: A logistical investigation into how a 10-year-old can perform a professional-grade head shave with only a pair of scissors and a Bic razor while his sister is mid-machete-fight downstairs.

• The Maskless Reveal: Why unmasking Jason always transforms him from a terrifying force of nature into a "latex goofy" version of the Toxic Avenger.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 6 Head Machetes
Curtis — 57 Crispin Glovers