In 1988 George Lucas and Ron Howard jammed J.R.R. Tolkien into a Star Wars mindset along with cutting-edge special effects and came out with a "dragon" so terrifying Matt instantly blocked it from his memory. Sydney and West watched "Willow" for the first time, and with Matt they revisit the fantasy would-be franchise-launcher that features Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, a disturbingly-moist human-to-pig transformation sequence, old ladies wailing on each other, a likely sexual predator with a pretty blatant double-standard, probably-offensive fantasy slurs, and more.

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