Get Soft With Dr Snuggles

Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 72 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

It’s off to Germany and also The Netherlands and also Switzerland and probably some other countries in the very, very late ‘60s, as Herr Doktor Snuggles and the gang check out Erwin C. Dietrich and also Jack Hill’s 1970 sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll far-out improv road trip classic, Ich - Ein Groupie, aka Higher and Higher! And what a gang it is: power couple Ken and Stacey of the Heavy Leather entertainment empire are back, as is Seattle rock writer extraordinaire Cherrybomb! It’s like a mini-Movies About Girls Show reunion. Accordingly, there is noisy chaos. There is also plenty of Herr Doktor Snuggles absolutely butchering a lot of German words, so enjoy that.

Much of the terrifying German mispronunciation comes as we look at the life and career of the star of Ich - Ein Groupie: Ingrid Steeger! From her beginnings growing up sleeping on the stove in a one room flat with her family in post-war Berlin, to her superstardom on German TV in the mid-’70s on sketch comedy phenomenon Klimbim, she had quite the rise to fame. At one point, 98% of Germans knew who she was! Granted, things didn’t exactly stay at that level, but you’ll be pleased to know (as a sort of postscript to the Softcore Spotlight on the show) that she’s on the mend and heading home after her recent heart attack.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 71 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

Siobhan is out with a cold this week, so the all guy gang of Dr Snuggles, Drew Buzzy, Texas Mike and Bobby from The Grindbin podcast have to deal with volume three of Playboy’s Inside Out anthology series by themselves. Inside Out has been quite a project to look at. We’ve had good times, and bad times. We have not had a lot of erotic times, which is odd for an erotic anthology series, but that’s life. Volume three is no different. We get a silent short in which old people turn young briefly then die, Greg Louganis dressed like a sexy fish man, another surreal Joe Frank effort, Greg Louganis dressed like a sexy fish man, some actually funny comedy about an impending nuclear apocalypse in Florida, but also an Alexander Payne (yes, that Alexander Payne) directed short in which a woman forces herself upon a mentally ill Vietnam veteran who she may or may not have dated 25 or so years prior.

It’s hard to come back from that. Some of us didn’t, in a lot of ways. Greg Louganis dressed like a sexy fish man healed some of us, but we left some good men behind.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 70 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

A while ago, our good buddy Lee from They Must Be Destroyed On Sight! podcast called our voicemail line (a thing you should do too) and said, hey, you should really do a Christine Nguyen film! Goddamn, we said, that’s a good point - how have we gone 2 and a half years without a movie featuring the legendary Christine Nguyen?! The next question was which one to do, although that turned out to be somewhat simple: clearly we had to do Fred Olen Ray’s 2006 spooky sorta musical Ghost in a Teeny Bikini. It’s got songs (three songs), spooky happenings, some truly brilliant dialogue, and some career defining performances from the likes of Brad Bartram and Voodoo.

Plus, we look at scene stealer, owner of truly gigantic boots and one of the reasons Fred even attempted a spooky musical softcore comedy, the amazing Evan Stone. Stone’s life story has to be heard to be believed: there’s Frisbee golf, knee injuries, dinner theatre with a white Andalusian stallion named Dartanian, and approximately 2,000 hardcore scenes. And it all starts with Evan performing the role of Anne Frank in high school.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 69 (nice) of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

As the world’s number one softcore movie podcast, we kind of had to serve up something special for episode 69, so we’re not only taking at look at gold digging 2009 comedy Cougar School, but talking to one of the film’s stars too: the great Brandon Ruckdashel! Brandon is probably best known as one of the stars of the softcore TV series Co-Ed Confidential - he played Zach in seasons 3 and 4. In fact, he plays a character named Zach in Cougar School too, and many of his Co-Ed Confidential co-stars show up as well - including legends like Michelle Maylene and Randy Spears. Turns out the movie was initially meant to be a cinematic spin-off from the TV show, until one of the rights holders gave that idea the thumbs down. Nonetheless, Brandon confirms that he considers it a canonical part of the Co-Ed Confidential Cinematic Universe. That’s a Get Soft exclusive you can take to the bank!

Naturally, as well as getting the low-down from Brandon on what it was like working in softcore between 2009 and 2015, we also talk with him about the rest of his life and career!

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 68 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

We’re joined once again by Bobby from the tremendous Grindbin podcast, and our pal Texas Mike, as our regular look at Playboy’s Inside Out anthology series continues this episode! Volume 2 is, if anything, possibly stranger than the first volume. It certainly features significantly less of what you might call erotic content - although we do find out that one of the shorts is a favourite amongst the flattening fetish community, so there’s that. But it does feature a hell of a cast, including Bruce Glover, Tane McClure, Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst, Bill Moseley, George ‘Buck’ Flower, Kitten Natividad, and PBS radio host Joe Frank. Plus, there’s directors like music video superstar Nigel Dick (most famous for Baby One More Time and Oops I Did It Again with Britney), Nicholas Brandt (who did Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You as Alan Smithee), and Hellraiser II’s Tony Randel, back for more.

Once again, there’s no Softcore Spotlight, but we still somehow go well into our second hour, mostly because we’re a bit stunned by the sheer weirdness of these videos.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 67 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

Every few months, we like to continue our chronological look at the career of the one and only Zalman King. We started with the delightful Two Moon Junction, then marvelled at the oddness of Wild Orchid, and this time we try to get our heads around in name only sequel/orphan prostitution period piece/high school drama epic Wild Orchid II: Blue Movie Blue, aka Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue. Even with the added might of guests Cherrybomb and Holly, it’s not entirely clear if we really do manage to work it out. Zalman King is a super weird guy, and he made some super weird movies, and they’re probably not going to get any less weird as we keep looking through them. We definitely don’t work out what Tom Skerritt is doing in the movie. Did Tom Skerritt know what he was doing in this movie? Probably not.

We also focus on the life and career of the great Nina Siemaszko, who plays the titular Blue. She experienced early career success in twin Corey smash hit License to Drive, but then evidently elected to play a character named Blue in a Zalman King movie, which is a thing you could do, I guess. A few months later she shot some scenes for a film called Reservoir Dogs, though she was cut from the film before it was released.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 66 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

Long time listeners may recall back in episode 27 we looked at Gary Graver’s unjustly forgotten 1973 weirdo classic ...And When She Was Bad. It’s one of the most incredible films we’ve looked at on the podcast, but one of the craziest things about it is that Graver later remade it in 1991 or so as Angel Eyes (with the great Fred Olen Ray producing). 1991 was slightly less receptive to 5+ minute electro-prog soundtracked psychedelic sequences though, so Graver had to jam in a subplot in which Erik Estrada plays a loan shark/drug dealer (whose boss is Richard Harrison, of all people). Also Monique Gabrielle stars this time around, so it’s less clear how old the main character Angel is meant to be - is she a teenager like in the original, or is she in her late 20s like Gabrielle was at the time? Impossible to know.

Plus, we focus on the life and career of one of the film’s other stars - the legendary, late, great John Phillip Law! You probably know him from the two films he made in 1968 while in Italy, Danger: Diabolik and Barbarella! He never quite hit the big time in the US - possibly because he turned down Jon Voight’s role in Midnight Cowboy and missed out on Nicholson’s role in Easy Rider due to scheduling issues - but he never lacked work overseas. In fact, he estimated later in his life he made films in 24 different countries!

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 65 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

This time around, we dip into the weird and varied collection that is Playboy’s Inside Out anthology series, starting - appropriately enough - with the first volume, and joining us in this venture is the great Bobby, from the Grindbin Podcast. We talk about the background of the series, and its links to music videos, and music video legends like Nigel Dick, David Fincher, and more! Even more amazingly (for some of the cast, at least) we talk about its links to EA’s SSX snowboarding series of video games - the greatest snowboarding games ever made!

Each of the four volumes released by Playboy contain 9 shorts. For one thing, this means that only 37 shorts ever made to home video, out of the 74 produced for the series when it aired on the Playboy Channel. For another thing, this means there’s a heck of a lot of actors and directors involved in even one of these videos, so in the interests of brevity, we’ve cut the Softcore Spotlight this time around. However, you’ll still hear about the background of creators like incredible writer-director Lizzie Borden, Hellbound: Hellraiser II director Tony Randel, Supergirl TV series creator Ali Adler, and Alexander Payne, who went on to direct Election and Sideways (also weirdly he co-wrote Jurassic Park III with Jim Taylor, who also works with him here).

It’s a pretty oddball bunch, but then, it’s a pretty oddball series!

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 64 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

Sometimes, as regular listeners would know, we like to have a few drinks with our buddy Matt from our Companeros Radio Network sister shows Movie Melt and Songs on Trial. This was taken to an extreme with episode 60, and we didn’t think we’d be doing it again quite this soon but here we are: drunk and recording an episode about 1998 pseudo-documentary Anna Nicole Smith: Exposed. It’s not quite as drunken as episode 60, but there was rather a lot of Jagermeister consumed in honour of that Anna Nicole Show Christmas episode where she had people doing shots of Jager from an ice sculpture of her breasts.

The actual feature goes for about an hour. This episode is 3 and a half hours. For once, we get the movie talk done in less time than the movie runs for - it’s more the 2 and a half hour Softcore Spotlight that contributes to our run time on this one. And surely you can guess who the subject of that is. Yep, it’s the great Jason Schnuit, who plays Anna’s chef. Just kidding: it’s Anna. Of course it’s Anna. And what else could we do but spend 150 minutes talking about her life? She’s nothing short of legendary - this one’s for you, Anna!

Very nice tower, we are leading your hair space.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 63 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

We’ve reached the final installment of the Embrace the Darkness trilogy already. Part II was one of the best movies we’ve done in a long time (according to everyone other than Jimmy Ether, at least). Will Part III get the same kind of amazing reception? We’ve got two guests - Lee Russell from They Must Be Destroyed On Sight! podcast and film composer/musician Timothy Fife - to help us work that out. It goes in some weird directions, let’s just say that. This time, Jennifer has to decide between a romance with a mortal journalist, and one with a 200 year old vampire named Victor who wants to make her the Queen of the Vampires. What will she choose? The answer will - quite honestly - surprise you. That said, the big surprise is also the most disappointing thing about the film - fan favourite vampiric weirdo Jack is written out of the film very early on. RIP Jack. Your bizarre line delivery will never be forgotten.

Out-acting the heck out of practically everyone in this movie is the always delightful Tiffany Shepis. Naturally, we focus on her life and career in our Spotlight, which is handy because it turns out Lee is a SUPER FAN. She’s well on her way to 150 credits on IMDB, and she’s only just hit 40. And it’s worth noting that at least a handful of those credits are with friend of the show Rolfe Kanefsky!

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