It's a lost episode from last year!
Electric Dreams is a 1984 romantic comedy involving a love triangle between a man, his computer, and a girl that lives in his apartment building. Miles (Lenny Von Dohlen) buys a Pinecone brand computer at his local Radio Shack (so '80s) to help him design an "earthquake-proof" brick that he's been envisioning. Miles attempts to download an entire database of information from the company mainframe and, when it starts to overheat, he attempts to use a bottle of champagne to cool it off. This combination causes his computer to come alive. Yes, these are the only two ingredients that you need to cause artificial life. The computer names itself Edgar, starts to talk (voiced by Bud Cort), and starts developing feelings for Madeline (Virginia Madsen), a cellist who has moved into Miles' building, after hearing her play music. Miles starts to develop feelings for Madeline as well and the love triangle is complete.
It's a movie that predates Spike Jonze's "Her" (starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson) by 30 years and earned 5 less Academy Award nominations and one less Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But, is it worthy of a watch? Siskel and Ebert both gave the movie 3.5 out of 4 stars. High praise for a movie that not many people even remember. But is it someone's favorite movie? Find out as Randy and Tommy take an adventure "together in electric dreams."
(episode 18)
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Intro: "Feel the Buzz" by Dan "D-Boy" Amboy
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Randy juggles two jobs and is the miserable retail slave of the two. He lives outside beautiful Flint, MI, USA and struggles with being a lazy, yet overworked dreamer and a struggling, but barely trying writer.
Tommy is a comedian of some stripe and doesn't have a romantic bone in his dumb body. His Beloved is really lucky (sarcasm implied)
