![]() And there's also, I assume the budget was so low that there was this one maniacal laugh that the kid makes, and every time in the movie, they just use the same laugh. And then they cut to the baby fighting a group of men, and it's clearly a stunt little person just beating up these guys. But there's this scene where a baby - I want to say they have this super baby in a lab, I don't know - and he escapes, and this team of thugs are trying to track him down, trying to get this baby. But they're essentially all babies who know the secrets of the universe and can talk to one another before they turn two, where they forget it. Baby Geniuses is another one of those movies that you watch and say 'Who was this made for? Like what age? I don't even know what the target audience is. "Which, I don't know if you've seen Baby Geniuses. ![]() "And another one that I had been toying with was from the movie Baby Geniuses," Rudd continued. I remember being like 'What?! This is the greatest thing I've ever seen.' And so I think that when I started - and this was early in your show - 'I'm just going to show a clip from something else.'" And then this Peter Cetera-sounding song about best friends kicks in, and it's totally unearned. And then the alien is up in the tree looking at him. ![]() (Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) This was one of the first Real Time Strategy games I can remember. This entire business is silly.' So that was one where I've seen the whole movieā¦ I remember watching it, kind of stumbling across it on TV, and there's a scene where it's like the alien raids this kid's house, kind of exactly like ET did, and then he goes out and he's looking for this - I guess what he assumes is an alien or something that was in his house. A transport ship comes to pick up some troops who are looking to party with the Orc enemy. "And so, to me, this is like 'People are watching this and it's all just silly anyway. Like oh, here's something from what I just filmed.' It just seemed - and still does, to a large extent - kind of insincere," Rudd explained. "There's something so tricky about 'Oh, here I am. During a recent appearance on O'Brien's podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Rudd explained exactly how exactly the bit came about, and what transfixed him about the bizarre movie to begin with.
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