This movie jumps on the bandwagon of two different trends. We've got a beach party movie on our hands with a Beatles inspired rock band at its center. Luckily that means we ended up having a delightful time.

Matt does a deep dive into how beach party movies became a thing and even gives a mini review of one he watched. Morgan liked a lot of the songs this time and was really taken by co-star Shelley Fabares.

Always pleasing to have nice things to say. Hopefully it'll happen more going forward.

We get a few signs of our growth throughout this series as we enter into the back half of the Elvis filmography. In this episode Matt is able to actually summarize the whole plot in short order and Morgan recognizes an actress and pinpoints which past film she appeared in. Look at us go.

That being said, Morgan is getting fed up with the tropes. She gets in a few good rants. There's also tangents about Buster Keaton's stunts, the origins of the song Blue Hawaii and a quick shoutout to John Woo.

It's pretty wild that we're already halfway towards our goal. So many movies. So we're taking an episode to pause and reflect.

The bulk of the time is taken up with us committing to ranking all the Elvis character names. Along the way we also discuss favourite songs, outfits, sidekicks, co-stars and even favourite scene of Elvis singing while driving.

We end the proceedings by riffing on which Elvis movie titles would make a good cocktail. Here's to the next leg of the journey and even beyond.

A classic movie gimmick. Have your lead actor play dual roles. Though they really don't utilize its potential with Elvis. The result is an almost okay movie. It wasn't as bad as we were expecting but maybe we're just getting better at keeping our expectations really low.

Morgan takes offense to a pair of overalls worn backwards. Matt notices Elvis holding a steering wheel strangely. It's the small details we just can't help but get distracted by. That's the Elvis Has Left The Movies difference.

Since we're opting to go with the production order of the movies instead of the release dates, Kissin' Cousins can wait for next week.

Elvis gets paired off with a leading lady who can really go toe to toe with him. Ann-Margret hops into this picture and brings along some folks who worked with her on Bye Bye Birdie.

Matt really dug the filmmaking on this one and Morgan once again has many thoughts on the wardrobe. We also talk about the connection Elvis has to a certain famous anime character.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming. We recorded it once and some audio was lost but second time's the charm so you may now hear our thoughts on Fun in Acapulco. It's a pretty good bad movie that contains probably our favourite weird scene transition yet.

We go into the surprising history Elvis had with Mexico which led to him being unable to step foot there. Also while talking about the cast Matt brings up a certain TV show that was spoken of in a past episode, much to Morgan's dismay.

Facing the dilemma of no new episode being recorded yet for this week, Matt decided to try this experiment. Didn't want you to be completely empty-handed. 

It's not a new episode but it is all new content. Many tangents and jokes get cut to keep things at a consistent runtime and all those extra bits are now collected here.

So if you came to this Elvis podcast hoping for an episode with almost no Elvis talk, this is the weirdly specific one for you. Hopefully we have Fun in Acapulco next week.

We'll tell ya what didn't happen at the World's Fair, a good movie. The location's an interesting change of pace but we can't muster too much enthusiasm for the story.

So you know what that means: Tangents galore! We riff on actors running in movies, what constitutes a comedy dance team and the original Planet of the Apes films. At one point a new spin on a classic musical is brainstormed.

Also we've got a twitter now, where bonus visuals related to our ramblings can be found. @ElvisHasLeftPod

We're following up Morgan's fave with Matt's least favourite (so far). Elvis is back in Hawaii and nobody's fond of this fiasco.

Once the plot's been dealt with, there are tangents about Morgan's love of kimonos and she envisions a version of The Golden Globes hosted by The Golden Girls. Delightful stuff.

Later, Matt brings up True Grit and makes a few revelations that Morgan didn't know. There's also some reminiscing about those little sticky hand toys. Remember those? Gosh this movie sucked.

Rejoice everyone, it's another film we actually like. Something that'll probably become rarer as we move along. It's Morgan's favourite and she's glad that it held up on this latest viewing. Not a fan of many of the songs though.

Throughout the episode there's lots of discussion about the change in filmmaking starting to take place in the mid-60's and the birth of New Hollywood. Matt even has a book recommendation. Then, perhaps inevitably, we end things by doing Edward G. Robinson impressions.