Cinema Saturday

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DCTV Valentine’s Gen 2019 day one: Team as Family

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Movie night was upon them yet again: Cinema Saturday!  Joe wasn’t sure he’d be able to come, but lo and behold, he was there too.  The were bowls of popcorn and piles of candy.  Wally and Barry had gone out to pick up the pizza, and Cisco had made a breach stop to grab slushies for himself and Wally.  The soda flowed like wine.  Harry, Joe, and Caitlin took water instead.

“We’re watching a children’s film?” Harry raised his brow at the cartoony cover.

“I brought a fuddy-duddy movie as a backup plan, but c’mon, I had to!” Cisco would defend his purchase with his life.  The Food Network fan and the Scooby-Doo fan in him united to keep him from passing this DVD by. “We can’t let ghosts beat Bobby Flay!”

Harry opened his mouth as if to say something, but he must’ve decided against it.

Thus began the harrowing tale of Scooby-Doo and the Gourmet Ghost…

Barry held Iris’s hand when the set up spooks involved thunder, “Why is his window open during a storm!?”

“Maybe he’s burning something,” Joe used a joke to break at least some of Barry’s tension.  Iris cuddled the rest out of him.

Snark quickly compelled them to comment.

“Wait, is Anxiety Chef a celebrity too?” Wally asked.  There were murmurs and maybes until Cisco looked it up.  Wally massaged his temple. “God, there’s so many characters in this film.  There’s already five with Mystery Inc, two cats, Bobby and Giada, Anxiety Chef, Sue, Curmudgeonly Ex-Groundskeeper, Author Dude and Author Dude’s Wife, the Reporter Lady, those other chefs, and Chef Siri???  This is an hour-and-twenty-minute-long children’s film, not Hamilton.”

“Wait, there’s two cats?” Caitlin perked up. “I thought there was just one.”

“No, there’s Bobby’s cat, Nacho, and Giada’s cat, Bella,” they could always count on Iris to keep track of the animals in any given movie.

“…Giada’s a ninja now?” not that Cisco wasn’t on board with this development, but this movie also cast her an expert in martial arts, parkour, and ultimate frisbee, gymnastic discuss throwing, supernatural, and REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS.  When did this universe’s Giada have time to be a chef???

“She’s not on your Earth?” Harry took another sip of water.  The others figured he was trolling, but one could never tell with Harry…

Cisco cheered at the Roomba of Doomba unleashing havoc upon the kitchen.  Wanton destruction was a welcome change from character chaos.  Iris celebrated her victory for calling the lemon ink thing after berating Bobby for putting the antique parchment of plot importance next to the baking parchment.  The only thing keeping Joe from giving up and busting out the beer was the fact he had to drive home.  It wasn’t a bad film by any means, it was just… unfocused.

And it didn’t have Scrappy in it, so it got one-thousand Scooby Snacks just for that!  Cisco had grown up not minding the scamp but reviewing him with adult eyes made him realize what a little shit he was.

After the what the fuckery of the baddie reveal, the movie ended on one last mystery: why was Anxiety Chef in the Mystery Machine!?!

“I’m selecting the movie next time,” Harry decreed.  Cisco got a bit discouraged, guessing he didn’t like it, yet next week’s film was Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire.