Ambushed! (GAM242)

### Starring:

Sarah Pippenger, Steven Moore, Vito Aversano, Duane Burgess, Sharon Burgess, Ron Nix, The Friesner Family Puppets

### Production Company:

Harvest Productions, Mr. Button Family Video

## Hosts

Noah Lugeons

Heath Enwright

Eli Bosnick

***Ambushed!*** is the story of a Native American becoming a completed Jew—just American, a completed Native American Christian. And then he takes up the... completed red man's burden, and helps an evil white guy atheist. It's *wildly* offensive (the whole thing) and brutal. I don't know… it's very short, and I hated every minute of it.

### **Opening Phrase**

Where each week we sample another selection from Christian cinema, because we wanna know what it's like to be essential.

### **How Bad Was It?**

Well, if you love PBS, but you think *Dora the Explorer* uses way too light a hand when it comes to the wages sin, you will *love* this movie. It's *Sesame Street Epistemology*.

### **Best Worst**

* Heath: ...puppets for no fucking reason.
* Noah: ...gunfight. [PKEW! PKEW!]
* Eli: ...Nazi dog.

### **Notes**

* Other Dudley Dumpling movies include *Dudley Dumpling* (also known as *Gods Warrior: Dudley Dumpling*–the same film chopped up into five episodes with "last time on" reviews) and *We Have a Story to Tell*. There's also a puppet-free sequel to *Ambushed* called *Hoodwinked!*
* Harvest Productions provided a helpful "User's Guide" for the movie which confirms that the Nazi dog's name is "Philemon."
* For Heath "Mr. Button" = "Missed Her Button."

### **Jokes**

* Yeah, so here's what fucked me up about it: I normally know very little about these things as we're going into them, so all I knew is that we're dealing with a Western—the movie starts and it's got the most generic possible Western music and the most generic possible Western visuals and everything, and about four or five minutes in, *puppets* show up. There have been human beings up to this point—everyone's been a human being, and then there's *puppets*, and they surprised me. I gotta say, you really gotta know going in that puppets are about to pop out of that stagecoach, or it'll freak you right the fuck out. [Heath: You gotta cold open with puppets if you're going to make a puppet movie!] (3:20)
* Now Noah, so far I think we can all agree this movie is pretty boring, but you know what it's missing? [Noah: What's that?] Vicious, vicious racism. That's correct Heath Enwright! [Heath: Yeah, it becomes a lot less boring now—it's super exciting—we're about to get racism.] [Noah: Alright, so they come across the "Lone Stranger" and he's with (their words, not mine) an "Indian warrior." It's okay guys, I'm sure that will be super tasteful.] \*groans\* [Heath: Yeah. He actually says "Looks like an Indian brave!", the little kid. No, it doesn't. It does not—that's false—it looks like an Italian guy with a feather in his hat. That is what it looks like.] Yup. That is what it looks like. [Noah: It looks like a tanned guy from Brooklyn is what it looks like. Okay, so the Lone Stranger goes one way, and then the kids run away from the Native American because he's a Native American, right?] [Heath: That is exactly what happens.] 'Oh my God, he's looking at us, he's looking at us!' [Heath: They're like "Don't make eye-contact with the savage. Fuck! Fuck. Okay, go!"] They react to the Indian brave the way missionaries reacted to me in Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. (37:05)

### **Interstitials**

* First Ever Writer's Meeting (9:04)
* "I'm an actor, not a puppeteer." (29:21)
* "Don't be [worried about your dad]." (47:32)

### **Tropes**

* Atheist Converts to Christianity
* Bible Reading Montage
* Christians Don't Know How the World Works
* Deathbed Conversion
* Disappointing Christian Celebrity [Ron Nix]
* Giving Someone a Book/Reading Montage
* Indoctrination of Children
* Jingly Keys!
* Minority Best Friend
* Neglectful/Goddess /Abusive Parent

### **Links**

* Episode on Audioboom
* Episode on YouTube
* Film on YouTube
* IMDB

### **Ad Reads**

* Quip: "Toothinator 9000" (1:08:59)
* Mejuri: "The Next Big Score" (1:10:22)