Christmas Special: Nanny McPhee

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[00:00:15] Why does a Torah as the largest child not simply eat the others? I'm not actually jobless. Actually, Meg had an idea for an episode and I said, go on then. So it's a special episode today. I'm even excited. I'm excited. We're doing our first non-TV show, which obviously is a film, but thanks or for spoiling that.

[00:01:43] Like, next special will cries at that line. Which she doesn't cry, but she finds it emotional. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry, she's fine. I think you said it brings us to tears. She's already mad with me as well. I don't need to get on another bad side of your mum. She's not mad with you.

[00:03:00] I don't think she wants mad side.

[00:03:02] She's mad with me.

[00:03:03] The line is, when you want me,

[00:03:06] but do not need me, him. OK, sometimes just a little bit of a lot of it.

[00:04:20] Just a little bit.

[00:04:21] We've started throwing the word horny around a lot recently.

[00:04:24] We have actually a piece of stuff.

[00:04:26] What's happening? So it is about a father who... A single dad. A single... A single dad who works too fast. He loves his kids and never stops. Yeah. He's recently widowed... Very recently. Very recently. Okay, we'll talk about this. But so he's recently widowed.

[00:05:41] He's got seven children who are so naughty

[00:05:45] that they are scaring away every single nanny.

[00:05:48] On purpose. Panda to them a bit. Yeah. And then so he sees in the newspaper an ad for Nanny McPhee who a government Nanny. I don't know if that's the first time he sees it but he keeps hearing the person you need. What could he go just want to mention one more thing as well? You can do as much talkin as you want. On the subject're told? Er, well, no, not exactly. Do they get dressed when they're told? Er, well now that's a good question. And there's like this implication that since the mum died he's been a bit distant. But because she can't have been dead that long, he can't have been distant for that long.

[00:09:42] So he's not been being in the circuit clip here. There's no time to mince words. I can't support my own family. I never have been able to.

[00:11:01] So many of you.

[00:11:04] But you were all so delicious.

[00:12:20] And when Aggie came along and your mother was so ill, I don't know what Docs means, what does that mean? Well basically it's the 1860s, having that many children is completely normal, but we're projecting the modern conception of, oh you've had seven children. Wow. No, it's not the amount of kids that makes me say that. No, no, it's what he says about them. No, I'm fully with you on that bit calling them, yeah. But when she says no wonder, there's so many of you.

[00:12:22] It was all too clear what he wanted to manage, nothing to do with it, no wonder there's

[00:12:25] so many of you.

[00:12:26] You wouldn't in a Victorian time, say it, sure. Is that weird that we see like period dramas and like period pieces where the families are not considered wealthy, but they live in massive houses because we're not the poor people then didn't have houses poor people now have houses or at least well most of them do rent.

[00:14:41] When did that change? I don't know, that's a specific question I'll have the answer to.

[00:14:44] Oh, really?

[00:14:45] Sometimes when she shakes her head at me and I'm like, what do you mean that's the thing

[00:14:48] you don't know?

[00:14:49] An unmarried woman had more financial independence than a married woman.

[00:14:55] Right.

[00:14:56] And you could own your own property instead.

[00:14:58] But even if you're an unmarried daughter, you still couldn't inherit.

[00:15:01] You still have to be married in order to...

[00:15:03] Because it would go to your own husband. Please, then! Take it off me! Please, now name with the please. Get up when they're told is lesson two. Maybe there's five lessons not in chronological order. Maybe she said the please. No, it's the first one. The first one, the last one are the ones that are not.

[00:16:22] The other one, the other three are defined.

[00:16:25] The second one is get up when you're told. And he needs to be honest with his children about his intentions. Yeah. So that's what the story is about. It's based on a book. Did you know it was based on a book? I did know it was based on a book and the screenplay was by Emma Thompson. Emma Thompson. It's based on a book series called Nurse from Tilda, which was first published in 1964 by another called Christiana Brand.

[00:17:42] Now I couldn't find the names of the kids in the book, couldn't find, without actually

[00:17:47] getting the book. 25 million. Oh yeah. Well, oh, yeah. So it wasn't like a huge give it well, you've got kids. So half your cast of kids, so you're not paying them that much anyway. The other half, the other half are litter that all is chock full of icons. Very, very British iconic, but with kids, you're also paying more because

[00:19:01] chaperones, chaperone, and you're filming for a lot longer because they can film,

[00:19:05] they can't film for as longirth has probably forgotten. But yeah. Colin Firth's too busy and famous. Yeah. But Kelly McDonald, who plays the maid.

[00:20:21] Evangibly.

[00:20:22] According to Mark Kamehode, the most radiant smile in Hollywood.

[00:20:26] I agree with that.

[00:20:27] She's got a very tight movie. It is a tight movie, but that's all killing no fellow. The characters, these are like notable characters. That's quite a lot for a cast. It's also got the same amount of children. I thought that Derek Jacobian, was it Patrick Barlow? Patrick Barlow had more screen time than they did

[00:21:42] because they had such, I remember this in-packs.

[00:21:44] Yeah, I remember with them having. Especially from Angela Lansbury. What'd she say? I'd say Mel, Mel, Mel. Mel, the Staunton.

[00:23:01] Mel, the Staunton.

[00:23:02] When she is reminded of her days in the armed forces

[00:23:07] and she has only 25.

[00:24:22] Yeah, he was our age. Yeah. who's even half way these things. They are an evil breed. Evangeline, for the record, whatever I may have said about stepmothers, that whole evil breed moment, most emphatically does not apply to you. One of the other kids, Christiana, she is the mute child in the middle seasons of Tracey

[00:25:43] Beaker. memories are insane. It's like they've just recorded her verbatim. It's quite amazing. I feel like they must have let the kids get to know each other a bit and like get comfortable with each other because they're scenes of them like playing and they are not playing like kids who just met. They are playing like siblings. They are actually acting like siblings.

[00:27:00] Like when they're in doing the kitchen scene and they're all super Yeah, she's got like an awareness that you shouldn't have at the age of six. Actually, what's wrong with you? And the bit where, oh my god, this is one of the bits that makes me really emotional when Anne Adelaide is riding off with one of Colin Firth my house and obviously none of the children want to go. So I think Eric is many of my fees afternoon off and everything has gone to know what the children have the solution to the children have come. Does Nana McPhee say oh there is someone in which isn't that just typical. He's the oldest, but she's the oldest girl. So she's like, yeah, maybe we shouldn't fucking do that. Despite the fact that she seems to be the most logical, she's like, we shouldn't, this isn't good, this isn't helping. Fuck sake. She is not told that she is the most clever.

[00:32:20] Simon's the most clever constantly,

[00:32:22] even though she's the one that's actually got her head

[00:32:24] on the straightest. convalescing for heaven's sake. No, that's enough. I don't want to hear anything bad about Aunt Adley. She pays the rent. She scares me. These are some of the best child actors I've ever seen. Yeah, they're very, very good. Yeah. All of them adults now, which is weird to think of, like even the baby's 19. Fucking hell.

[00:33:40] The baby's is two of them.

[00:33:41] Oh my god. Oh, they twins.

[00:33:43] Yeah.

[00:33:45] Oh, I have something else to say and it was magic, then it would just be magic, but you know, I like is the else you said when I When I suggested this she was like, yeah, I don't know why we doing that blah blah blah She's literally sitting here like fizzing with things to say she's scrolling through her notes on her phone right now It's so cute. Yeah, I love you want to say oh there's there's too many things I want to say

[00:35:04] well, I've got I

[00:36:05] into these parts. So like every time a lesson is learned, you know that the children have learned a lesson. And Nanny McPhee, one of these characteristics, disappears.

[00:36:10] I don't know if that is clearly delineated though. I, at the beginning, it's definitely

[00:36:15] at the beginning. And it pees us off, and I get it more as an adult than I did as a child.

[00:36:20] Yeah. But yeah, every time the children are getting more and more well behaved, and Nanny McPhee is So I understand why it hasn't done that and it would take a lot of different things put all together to actually change this perception. So putting that kind of weight on this kind of movie is not fair. They're working off of existing things. They didn't create them. One I didn't notice until this watch is her weight change. I didn't notice that. I did not. I feel like she isn't quote unquote overweight.

[00:37:45] She's got like a matronly figure. this conversation would probably happen, whereas I think in 2005 they didn't even have this conversation. No. And I don't think any... It doesn't... Sometimes this sort of thing feels malicious, but it doesn't feel malicious because nothing about the film really feels malicious. I'm trying to think, there's definitely been like Disney films where it's like,

[00:39:00] this person is evil because they're fat.

[00:39:04] Do you know what?

[00:39:05] Oh, like Ursula.

[00:39:07] Yeah, yes.

[00:40:20] I love that when Nanny McPhee appears

[00:40:22] out of nowhere in the kitchen,

[00:40:24] the cook just looks up and down like,

[00:40:27] like he doesn't knew that she could do at this house. But none of the kids wanted to fucking go. She probably didn't want to eat. I was going to make it very clear the movie explicitly at one point states that Adelaine

[00:41:45] has intentions of by the union. I love the relationship between Evangeline and Nanny McPhee. Like the first scene there together on the balcony when she's watching her learn to read, it's just lovely. Has the reading coming along?

[00:43:04] It's much better, but I still haven the thought last night while we were watching it, like, how didn't I pick up on the fact that there are loads of dead bodies? What's his name? I thought we got you that time. Yeah, and they're like this comedy duo and how for the life of me cannot remember what I like. I liken them to something, didn't I? Is it a magician duo?

[00:45:41] I can't remember.

[00:45:43] They are so funny.

[00:45:45] Yeah, I would definitely marry Paul Devill. It's their bedroom at like presumably sunset. Like they've got like tinted windows and the orange coming in. It's almost, what's that Italian, is it Jello? The Italian horror genre that is like ultra colorful. His study with like the bright lime green walls with the paint peeling it is gorgeous.

[00:47:01] I love that hallway with the blue.

[00:47:03] Oh, it's so nice.

[00:47:04] It's room that we see visitors, like the drawing room, the tear and whatever, where it would be full of trinkets, full of stuff like overstuffed, fire hazard, left, all my things.

[00:48:21] Please come in and look at my things.

[00:48:22] The rest of your house wouldn't be so densely.

[00:48:25] Laura said the room.

[00:48:26] I bought these things for you to look at. It's like mud. Yeah. I have straw. That's only the nozzling. I have. You guys seen that? The reconstruction of the statue of Caesar. Yes. And it's like, it's the same bright fuchsia as Mrs. Cricut. Yeah, it's like, okay. Yay. It's like bright purple, bright turquoise.

[00:49:43] But the green was really popular.

[00:49:44] The green of his office isn't quite the green, but it would have had lead in it.

[00:49:48] So his office would have killed it. Oh, there's her staff just lent against a bare wall at which he picks up and bangs. Yeah. Hello, Simon. Can I help you?

[00:51:01] I did not.

[00:51:03] I know.

[00:51:04] I heard you. That whole way immediately her the time picture. She looks so unwell in this movie, it's so funny. Yeah, she's very adaptable. She's a chameleon and she's really good. Yeah, but Mark Dassett, not Mark. Cedric Brown. Cedric Brown, Colin Firth. He is not dressed at all.

[00:52:21] He's dressed.

[00:52:22] He's dressed like unfortunately.

[00:52:24] But like he's just wearing modern shirts.

[00:52:27] Yeah, when you look at the first, it's the first magical scene, really. And emotions are high. And I got really overwhelmed by it. And it got to the point where Chrissy

[00:53:41] points at Niamo Fien goes, it's her fault. got bright red sort of almost chucky hair. And like a very flush. She's very flush all the time. And then yeah, Celia Emery's character's got like blonde hair that looks like it has been badly dyed. It's yellow. Yeah. Oh, also, I do want to mention that she has got two accessories that are

[00:55:03] lambs that are dyed pink and yellow, which I assume is why the girls address this She's like stumbling over her words. It's beautiful. It's just too girly. He's having tea. Okay. So the art, the great on Adelaide. Got the one. So why her name is so difficult for me today? Um, she has set the like, you need to get married within a month, Cedric. Or I'm cutting you off.

[00:56:20] Cedric.

[00:56:21] Yeah.

[00:56:22] Um, the aunt gives big the, the, you are a saint. You have a lovely look of kindness about you. What I wouldn't give for a man like you, Mr Brown, in my hour of meat. That one?

[00:57:41] Yes, that one.

[00:57:43] We buried Mr Quickly last autumn.

[00:57:45] Poor, double.

[00:57:46] He was happy to go.

[00:57:48] And he was her third. I got down. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, of course not. And then they look at each other and they go, oh. Because presumably they also know how slim with the bachelorette options are in this village. I mean, so is it any wonder that he ends up marrying the only other woman available in

[00:59:02] this sense? And there's all the adults are yelling, and Evangeline turns to Miss Brougge, like, was your fault you didn't learn rough dinner? Oh, and they have that little argument. They're in the kitchen! No, no, no, no! arguing, I'm bummed. You can't be bummed. You're poo. Yeah. And bosoms. She's so cute. You can't be bummed. Like you can't be poo and bummed.

[01:01:41] They're calling each other by their names and then saying, no, you can't be poor.

[01:01:47] Aggies poo. Good night, Tora. Good night, Kristiana. And then she gets to the end of the room. She gets to the door, she turns around and she goes, good night, Simon. Yeah, it's so good. You're like you looking cunt. They're all really unsettled and it's just really good. I love the names of all these kind of. I love the name, Tora. I do think that some of the names, like I don't think the kid named Simon should be named Simon.

[01:03:01] I think he should be Eric.

[01:03:04] Like some of it, really, I think he looks quite like Simon.

[01:03:07] Might just be some of my dad called Simon. It's her mother's rattle, give it back. I'm your mother now. The baby's got a rattle from the dead mother. And the stepmom, the soon to be stepmom, rips it out of the baby's hand

[01:04:20] and snaps it in half in front of her face.

[01:04:23] I'm your mummy now.

[01:04:25] Oh well.

[01:04:26] Oh well, say.

[01:04:27] Oh well, too. He's married. And also as Mr. Dazzie.

[01:05:41] He's marrying a woman who is, who looks, at least looks young enough to have been able to be passed off as one of his own children. I don't exactly know how you would do that, especially if they- You know much about video editing though? Well no, I'm asking. Yeah, but you know, I don't know exactly how they do that specifically, but I do know a lot of other things. I think they would have probably- Whoa, sorry guys! Films on film in 2005, right? Just get myself in the head with a lamp.

[01:07:00] You okay?

[01:07:00] Yeah.

[01:07:00] Good.

[01:07:06] Government money? of all the booby traps the kids have set and she's basically like this man is so horny for me. I do beg your pardon I don't know what came over me. I do understand I never took you as much but now I see it. Passion is really your nature too.

[01:09:23] Yeah, or worms, and toads, and electricity. And when she calls him a boundary and a cat,

[01:09:28] he then lands a round of bads.

[01:09:31] No, this is too much, sir.

[01:09:37] You are a cat.

[01:09:40] A boundary and a cat.

[01:09:43] Yeah, he decides then to come clean and say to the house will be taken. Some of you will perhaps be put into the workhouse. Some will be put into the care of others. I don't know how many of you will be allowed to stay together. MUSIC

[01:11:02] I'm sorry to have failed you, Turin.

[01:11:04] MUSIC if you dressed like it was the 19th century at any point between now and 1900, like if you dress like it was 1850, at any point after 1900, people would be like, yeah, but am I a noble woman or am I a pauper because I don't dress that differently to how I imagine paupers from the 1850s.

[01:13:24] teach because I don't know if they're the five lessons I would choose.

[01:13:26] Well, they do bring it up. She does say a little bit later in the film.

[01:13:29] I have five lessons to teach what they learn is up to them.

[01:13:33] No, I know, but I'm less than four to listen is complete.

[01:13:37] And that she's saying that to Mr.

[01:13:39] Brown because that's the lesson for him.

[01:13:41] Yes.

[01:13:42] But say the agency sent me. because the lesson you needed to learn was things like not to be such a little prick. To your nanny. Not to, I don't know if this will make it into the final edit, but not to be, have made a nanny cry and be sat across from the crying woman looking proud of herself.

[01:15:02] I relate a lot to these children in the beginning when I mean, of course they didn't eat the baby, it's a chicken. But in the Victorian times, maybe they, you know, he's got no money, eat the smallest one. Well, you eat the largest one, wouldn't you? Look around, you eat the most. Look around for the baby before you go, I guess they've definitely eaten the baby. Is it the baby which they've put in a pot full of vegetables?

[01:16:21] Why do they take the lid off and there's the baby?

[01:16:24] Why does the Torah as the largest my mom got home the woman ran out crying I'm like like responsible enough to know that you can't leave a five-year-old alone or younger, but Really doesn't want to be there anymore. I don't know where my brother was in all this. Oh my god the medicine See the context of them all having measles in my like a modern understanding of measles

[01:17:44] I'm like that's so serious to play with yeah

[01:18:41] quietly and she's like, nah. Hahaha.

[01:18:42] Anyway, that's another part that's like entered the lexicon of me and Arthur and Betty.

[01:18:48] Then you will not get any better.

[01:18:52] Believe me.

[01:18:53] It's perfect.

[01:18:56] I wish I'd had Nanny McPhee as a daddy.

[01:19:00] So I don't know.

[01:19:01] No, but when you want her and do not need her cast to go.

[01:19:03] Okay, now, yeah, but I definitely needed her when I was a kid.

[01:19:07] Yeah. And then I was like, okay, filming our imaginary exists. It's the second one, yes. We should watch it.

[01:20:20] Well, I recommend that if you,

[01:20:23] one of the few people listening to this

[01:20:25] who hasn't seen it, you take time over Christmas.

[01:20:28] Yeah, to watch this. having that this will be like the second maybe I think third year that I've not had Christmas like had like a big Christmas I'm just gonna be with my mum and dad and me and my mum have got I believe we've got a salmon on cream Christmas day yeah it's like fuck a rose we um but rose potato no I will have

[01:21:40] rose potatoes it's just we I mean my dad, you can also now drink as a dog, but see the job. Well, then I'd need one of you to hurry up and have some kids. So I can experience that, please. Meg, looking at you. What Santa bringing you? Santa is bringing me. It's money. Well, actually, I've just had an idea. I think for a little behind the Paywall bonus episode, we should give each other our presence on Mike. That would be...

[01:24:04] You don't have that where with all to have to think, should this be a secret.

[01:24:06] That's your problem.

[01:24:07] Yeah, I do need to be told, hey, don't say that to people.

[01:24:11] Yeah, I will confide in something to Laura

[01:24:13] and her grandma knows the next day.

[01:24:15] No, no, no, okay, it's not that fast

[01:24:17] to spread around the family.

[01:24:19] It's Meg who knows what the...

[01:24:20] Well, it depends when you're seeing your family, Laura.

[01:24:23] If you're seeing your grandma the next day,

[01:24:25] she knows the next day.

[01:24:26] That's true.

[01:24:27] She does know some things about Meg, Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, I hope you will have a good Christmas, guys. Thank you for listening to us. Just talk about Nanny McPhee. We just love it. The thing is that isn't the podcast, to be fair. Yeah, it is. We don't have to have fun facts about it. There aren't really that many fun facts, but it's just a nice film. I really love it. Well, when we were watching the credits, we watched the entire credits reading out different

[01:25:43] names of the credits because there are. See you in the new year.

[01:27:00] See you in the new year.

[01:27:01] Are we doing, when is the anniversary?

[01:27:03] The 19th, but we can do it just in general January.